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In pictures: Russia's muted Bolshevik Revolution centenary

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image captionInstead of Communist symbolism the official parade in Moscow honoured World War Two soldiers
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image captionThe parade marked the Soviet campaign against Nazi Germany in 1941. President Vladimir Putin stayed away and the event was not shown live on state TV.
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image captionRussian state TV screened a drama about Joseph Stalin's rival Leon Trotsky - a leader who was erased from official Soviet history.
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image captionCommunists staged their own parade in Moscow, with portraits of Lenin and Stalin. The party is now a pale shadow of its former self.
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image captionSome foreign communists, such as these from Spain, rallied in Moscow in solidarity
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image captionA woman in Belarus poses by a flag with a portrait of Lenin. Communists in several ex-Soviet republics marked the centenary.

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