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The train, which left Zurich the 9^th of April 1917, returning a group of Russian socialists, which were living in exile, back to their home country is one of the most important happenings in the 20^th century history: This was the train, which took Lenin to Russia, where he would use the politic instability in order to put into practice his revolutionary plans, prepared for year in the libraries and political circles of Zurich. This train crossed Germany from the Swiss border to Sassnitz, where it was loaded on a ferry boat and driven to Sweden, from where ir would finally head towards Petrograd (today St. Petersburg). The Austrian author Stefan Zweig wrote a short-story about this historical episode, which is part of his book Sternstunden der Menschheit. Weiterlesen →