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Every Soviet schoolchild learnt that in 1917 Lenin travelled home from exile in Switzerland to lead the Russian Revolution. On the centenary of that momentous journey, Â鶹Éç Russian poses some key questions, like who funded Lenin's return, was he a German spy, and how was a Russian able to cross enemy German territory at the height of the First World War? Over to Anastasia Uspenskaya. Picture: Juri Vendik, author and presenter of Â鶹Éç Russian's The Train from Zurich to the Revolution. Credit: Â鶹Éç