Lenin was a world-famous figure in the early 20th century, especially after leading the October Revolution, however, he was also a target of assassination. In August 1918, Soviet leader Lenin faced the dangerous assassination of a Ukrainian woman. The man shot at Lenin. Two of the bullets hit Lenin, but were not life-threatening.
In 1918 Lenin was the leader of Soviet power throughout the world, and in that year he published the Letter of the Council of People's Commissars to the Working People of Russia, marking the establishment of Soviet Russia. Lenin's assassination came at a time when Soviet Russia was filled with hostile fears, and many enemies feared that the Bolshevik Party would sign an armistice with Germany near the end of World War I.
Lenin was assassinated on August 30, 1918, when Lenin ended a speech to workers at the Mikherson factory on the outskirts of Moscow, and the murder was a Ukrainian woman named Kaplan (28 years old).
According to the documents, Fanya Kaplan was preparing to carry out the assassination while Lenin was speaking to workers at the Mikherson factory outside Moscow. Kaplan later admitted that he had assassinated Lenin and said that there was no one behind the scenes and that it was entirely personal.
Kaplan raised his gun at Lenin as he was leaving, and Kaplan fired three shots, the first hitting Lenin in the left shoulder, the second hitting him in the left chest and passing through the neck, and the third hitting the woman who was talking to him.
Immediately after being hit, Lenin was sent to a state of emergency and treated by a surgeon. After the operation, Lenin's health gradually recovered and stabilized. Soviet security forces then captured Vanya Kaplan at the scene of the assassination.
After his arrest, Kaplan claimed to be a member of the Kiev anarchist movement. She was exiled for 11 years for assassinating an official in the Tsarist government. When the last Russian tsar was overthrown, Kaplan was pardoned. Kaplan joined the SR after his release, reviving his intention to assassinate Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Kaplan was shot on 3 September 1918 on suspicion of murdering Lenin.
Lenin was assassinated in 1918, although his life was not in danger. However, Lenin's health was severely affected, and many believe that Lenin's stroke in his later years was related to this assassination and caused Lenin's eventual death in 1924.