Pols want to bury Lenin, not praise him | Washington Times

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Pols want to bury Lenin, not praise him


Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union,
lays embalmed in his tomb in Moscow's Red
Square. (AP)

By Daniel McLaughlin
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH


MOSCOW — The head of a once-secret Russian committee that maintains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin has denounced calls to bury him and vowed to preserve the revolutionary's remains for generations.

Members of the Mausoleum Group still tend to his body 80 years after their predecessors embalmed it.

Valery Bykov, the head of the 15-person group, criticized politicians for using the anniversary this month of Lenin's death to resume a bitter debate over the future of the body.

"These people are mostly fools," he said Thursday of a broad spectrum of politicians who want Russia to bury Lenin, close his tomb and let his legacy lie. "They have left no mark on history and never will. They are of no interest to us."

Opinion polls suggest growing support for removing Lenin's body from Red Square.

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[MikeG]

1. You know, this guy has used Botox.

[mn9driver]

2. I've heard from some who've seen it that the corpse

was getting seriously gnarly looking. I think they recently did a major restoration on it--like we just did on the Declaration of Independence...:crazy:

[Minstrel Boy]

3. But how could he be laid to rest

when he'd spend all his time spinning in his grave?