When
Napoleon
invaded Russia, Moscow preferred to burn rather than surrender to the French.
The Soviets, however, praised Bonaparte as a sketch of what
Lenin
had been a hundred years later
.
Already the tsars had seen him at first as the restorer of the monarchy and the personification of autocratic power.
200 years have passed since the death of the good villain Bonaparte, who was only an enemy of the Russians when he was too close.
The last invasion we have suffered in Moscow
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