Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, but the Soviet Union tried to keep his memory alive by keeping his preserved body on display in Red Square. If the Russian people have their way – always a questionable prospect – the evil, old Communist will finally be buried.
Time has the details:
Seventy percent of Russians voting in an online poll support the removal of the former revolutionary’s body and his burial–totaling 178,022 votes.
To mark Lenin’s 87th anniversary of his death, the goodbyelenin.ru online poll, which attracted votes from 270,000 people, was organized by Russian Prime Minister Putin’s ruling party after one of its members of parliament, Vladimir Medinsky, last week strongly backed Lenins’s burial.
“It’s well known that Lenin himself did not plan to put up any mausoleums to himself, and his living relatives, his brother and sister, were categorically against,” Medinsky was quoted as saying on the poll’s website. “Communists could not care less about what Lenin himself or his relatives wanted.”
Fair is fair. Considering how many Russians were buried as a result of Lenin’s legacy, it’s only fitting that he should be buried, too. Perhaps in Siberia alongside so many of his victims.
Source: Time
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Say, did they ever bury old Vladdie, or is he still stinkin' up a back room in the basement of the Lubyanka?
Buried, they should soak his over filled corpse with gasoline and sit it a blaze. Wiping him from the face of the earth. Leinn killed more of his own people than the Nazis did. Between him and Stalin they wiped out at least three generations.
Burn baby burn and be done with him.
Oh-Oh Lenin being an OG liberal....I see another T-shirt hero for the libs.
No, don't bury him in Siberia. My uncle-in-law lives there and wouldn't appreciate that. Btw, if you want to see some people who love America, talk to some Russians who lived through the worst parts of communism.
Hopefully they won't remove the wooden stake through his heart before burying him.
Ah... lol genius.
I think a massive funeral pyre would be appropriate and they could make some good money off of it at the same time.
Just raffle off tickets and the lucky winner gets to flick their bic to The Doors 'Light My Fire'.
Make money off the show? What money? The Russian people have no money, they cannot even pay their military personnel except in script, promisory notes, because they are so broke.
How's that "wealth re-distributions" thing working for you Russians folks? Not too well? Ya' think that is because nobody has any "wealth" to hand over to the government anymore?
Don't worry, we Americans will soon join you. We will sit around swilling beer, while you sit around sucking up the potatoe juice, because we will have found out what you learned 80 years ago. Why work when you get nothing for it? No sense in being industrious and try to start a new business. The government will want everything you earn anyway so what is the use?
I won't be around to see it but I do feel sorry for my grand children. At the rate our politicians are selling us down the river I fear they will see the reality of living in a COMMUNIST country. Socialist, communist, it makes no difference. A ruling class of the "elite" and the rest of us. Period and the end. No middle class, no small businesses, no chance to get ahead or better your position in life. Just a dull, gray, dreary life lived with the hope for a little pension after all the years of labor.