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Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
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Lord Byron
English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
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Thomas Paine
American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.
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Oliver Cromwell
English military and political leader (1599–1658)
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August Strindberg
Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)
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Christopher Hitchens
English American author and journalist (1949–2011)
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Traian Băsescu
President of Romania from 2004 to 2014
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Nestor Makhno
Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888–1934)
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The Clash
British punk rock band
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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Philosopher, military and political leader (1767-1794)
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J. G. Ballard
British novelist (1930–2009)
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Theo van Gogh
Dutch film director (1957–2004)
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Saigō Takamori
samurai of the Satsuma domain, supreme commander of Japanese army, one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (1828-1877)
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John Oliver
British-American comedian and television host
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Yakov Sverdlov
Soviet politician
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sans-culottes
The '''''' (; ) were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the . The word , which is opposed to "aristocrat", seems to have been used for the first time on 28 February 1791 by Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan in a derogatory sense, speaking about a " army". The word came into vogue during the demonstration of 20 June 1792.
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Boris Savinkov
Russian writer (1879-1925)
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Benjamin Zephaniah
British poet (1958–2023)
Richard Price
British philosopher, preacher and mathematician (1723–1791)
Lyuben Karavelov
Bulgarian writer (1834–1879)
Dennis Skinner
British politician (born 1932)
Halyna Kuzmenko
Ukrainian anarchist (1897–1978)
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Arif Abd ar-Razzaq
Iraqi politician (1921 – 2007)
Three Arrows
socialist political symbol
Muhammad Kazim Khurasani
Iranian Shi'a jurist and political activist (1839–1911)
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Hans Gruijters
Dutch politician (1931–2005)
Daisuke Nanba
Japanese assassin (1899–1924)
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Abdallah Mazandarani
Iranian Shia Marja' and politician (1840–1912)
Tang Zhen
Chinese philosopher
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Arjen Lubach
Dutch comedian and television presentator
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Youp van 't Hek
Dutch comedian
Abdullah Rimawi
Jordanian politician (1920-1980)
Georgios Poulos
Greek Nazi collaborator (1889–1949)
Hussein al-Khalili
Iraqi Islamic scholar and jurist (1815–1908)
Islamist Shi'ism
political Islam in the Twelver Shi'a branch of Islam