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Why do the Russians keep it out anymore? Is he seen more as a liberator from Czarist oppression than the bringer of Communism?

For turist I suppose. There are still enough lunatics to pay to see the sacred body.

StarshipTitanic wrote:Why do the Russians keep it out anymore? Is he seen more as a liberator from Czarist oppression than the bringer of Communism?

Yes, and he's simply very important historically. The only thing that's going to remove it from display is when the body finally reaches the point that it degrees too much for further preservation, as it is they already had to spend several years doing the equivalent of a renovation on the on it. After that I'd expect they'd switch to a closed casket.

When they tried to move it, IIRC, there were a whole lot of protests and stuff.

And yes, I've seen it. It looked...weird.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

If all goes well I'll be able to see the body before the year ends.

Is Stalin still visible?

Gandalf wrote:If all goes well I'll be able to see the body before the year ends.

Is Stalin still visible?

No, Stalins body was removed as soon as Khruschev (sp?) came to power.

I thought Lenin's corpse was a fake?

Frank Hipper wrote:I thought Lenin's corpse was a fake?

Yes the acutal body was removed in October of 1952 for Project Roboto whichs ultimate goal was to use the dead leader's body as the centeral brain of a giant sixty foot mechincal robot codename Big Red

Mr Bean wrote:

Frank Hipper wrote:I thought Lenin's corpse was a fake?

Yes the acutal body was removed in October of 1952 for Project Roboto whichs ultimate goal was to use the dead leader's body as the centeral brain of a giant sixty foot mechincal robot codename Big Red

They advocated mecha? No wonder the Soviet Union disintegerated.

Frank Hipper wrote:They advocated mecha? No wonder the Soviet Union disintegerated.

Nothing compared to the Nazi Flying Saucers.

Lenin smashes out of his glass case and marches away like a zombie.

"Must...destroy...capitalism..."