Details of Lenin's funeral
Posted: 2011-11-16 12:39am
I'm fond of arguing the specifics of Stalin's funeral to dispute the assumption that he and his state were purely atheistic, among other things. The argument would probably be more compelling, however, if I could draw comparisons to Lenin's funeral procedures and call attention to any discrepancies in religious content between the two, but for all the information available on Lenin's Mausoleum there isn't much available on the actual specifics of his funeral service, unorthodox though it might've been. Was Lenin's funeral service firmly atheistic, or at least secular when compared to Stalin's?