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Russia to bury Lenin's embalmed body after 88 years | Russia will be burying the body of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin after 88 years. The revolutionary's body is still on public display in a mausoleum on Moscow's
Red Square more than two decades after the break-up of the former USSR. Culture
Minister Vladimir Medinsky said it was 'absurd' that Lenin had not been laid to
rest 88 years after his death, the Daily Mail reports. Calling for his burial
in a normal grave, as Lenin himself had requested, Medinsky said: "Maybe something
would change for the better in our lives then." The Bolshevik leader's remains
were embalmed on Stalin's orders when he died aged 53 in 1924 and was kept on
public display in Moscow all these years except for the period of the Second World
War. Putin has repeatedly postponed a decision on burial, arguing that Lenin remained
an icon for many elderly Russians.
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