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Vladimir Lenin’s embalmed corpse is one of the biggest attractions in Moscow. But most Russians agree now, a century after his death, it’s time for Lenin to say goodbye to his public tomb.
Lenin’s embalmed corpse is one of the biggest attractions in Moscow, drawing a mix of tourists and communists to his tomb. But most Russians agree now, a...
Death still suits Lenin, even 100 years later. The embalmed body of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov lies clad in a fine suit in a specially built mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square. Lenin was born in 1870 and died in 1924. And even decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union he founded, tourists still come to peer at the founder of a new world order, in his dimly-lit crystal sarcophagus. The site is also a place of pilgrimage for Russian communists, who laid flowers and wre
The German parliament explicitly places the "Holodomor" on par with the Holocaust and the Nazi crimes against the Soviet Union. With this line of argument, the Bundestag places itself squarely in the tradition of the Ukrainian and international far right.