28Lubyanka Prison
Moscow, Russia
September 1, 1918
As the car approached Lubyanka Square, Joseph Stalin reflected on the events of the past several days and smiled, feeling quite pleased. Circumstances had completely changed, and now his star had begun its ascent. He felt events couldn’t possibly be going any better. It all began two days before, when Lenin gave a speech in Moscow to a group of factory workers. After he finished and the crowd swarmed around him, several loud pops were heard and screaming began. A Social Revolutionary, a woman, had shot Vladimir Lenin three times.
Lenin refused to be taken to a hospital and instead insisted that he be taken to the Kremlin. After visiting him, Stalin learned that the doctors felt that he would survive. It would be a while before he conva
