A tool of Germany... That's what Poutine said about Lenin and DW too 😁

French spelling of his name, he himself used it when writing in French, and that how he was registered when he lived in France and Switzerland. His pseudonym also had French version which he himself used, as read in the second screen: "Lenine" (even though the pic is hilariously wrong).

I think one of Lenin's brothers was called Nikolai