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Lenin placed Stalin as an enforcer to do the dirty stuff for him. It would be very naive to assume Lenin didn't know the risk involved of putting a former mob gangster in such a position.
Germany send Lenin from Switzerland to Russia, Lenin helped Germany in WW1, he wasn't super smart.