Tonight’s Historama investigates the secret of Russia’s noisy plane and the circumstances that made Vladimir Lenin leave his motherland.

Noisy Russian plane gets banned in Europe

Today in 1963, the Tupolev 134 jet took to the skies for the first time.

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The jet was the USSR's first international airliner – however, it was banned in many European countries though for being too noisy.

In March 2007, the Russian Transport Minister called the 134 outdated. He said the existing fleet should be replaced with more modern aircraft within five years.

Lenin quits Russia for Europe

On this day in 1900, Vladimir Lenin left Russia to live and work abroad.

He would illegally come back for short visits in 1905 – the year the first revolution took place in St. Petersburg.

Lenin spent 17 years in Europe where he worked on his political ideas and pushed hard for regime change.

He returned to Russia after the Tsar’s abdication. At that moment, power was in the hands of the Provisional Government.

In October that year, he staged an armed uprising against the government. So Lenin emerged as the head of the new Soviet government.

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