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
