Russian peasants get their first electric light, 1920

Vladimir Lenin believed that “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country,” so in early 1920, he instituted his GOELRO Plan, or the ”State Commission for Electrification of Russia.”

Here are two Russians experiencing electric light in their home for the first time…

(Colorized version)

(via Wikipedia, Collective History)

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