Monday, December 24, 2012
Lenin is still dead
And has been all these years. But now his mausoleum is in need of major repairs, just as he is on an annual basis. This has raised a serious discussion as to whether the state should continue his costly preservation or just plant him six feet under like everyone else.
Debates on whether to remove the body from the mausoleum constructed in 1924, when Lenin died at age 53, started after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.Book your flight soon if you want to see him. No telling how long he will last.
Though the mausoleum is a tourist attraction, increasing numbers of Russians are calling for Lenin to be buried. Russia’s Communist party vehemently opposes the idea.
In the latest big debate on the issue last year, the ruling party United Russia launched a campaign for Lenin’s burial, however the discussion was quickly shelved.
At that time, 56 percent of Russians said it would be better to bury Lenin, while 31 percent said his body should be left alone, a Levada poll said.
President Vladimir Putin earlier this month said the body reflects Russian tradition, even controversially comparing it to the ancient Orthodox relics of saints displayed in famous monasteries in Russia, Ukraine, and Greece.
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