Ok, this is more than 6 steps, but oh well.

Bertrand Russell was one of the world's most influencial mathematicians and liberal philosophers. At one point, he traveled to Russia in support of Vladmir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Lenin, after Marx, was the leader of the socialist movement. The movement inspired many novels, including Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which takes place in Chicago. One of the most important events in Chicago history is the Chicago Fire, which occured in 1871. In that same year, Germany unified and became the German Empire. In 1914, the United States joined World War I fighting against the Germans. One man who left his home in America to volunteer as an ambulance driver was a young Walt Disney, whose company would later invent the character of Scrooge McDuck.

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