Re: Re: Re: Re: red flags

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lenin's Embalmers
Ilya Zbarsky  Samuel Hutchinson  Barbara Bray (Translator)
Between 1924 and the fall of communism in 1991, hundreds of millions of
visitors paid their respects to the embalmed body of Lenin and, later, that
of Stalin. Professor Ilya Zbarsky - son of Boris Zbarsky who, with professor
Vladimir Vorobiov, mummified Lenin two months after his death - reveals the
extraordinary adventure of his family and of those who worked in the
mausoleum laboratory, the sole purpose of which was to maintain the body of
the Soviet founder in perpetuity. This they achieved by plunging him into a
secret solution based on glycerine and potassium acetate. Their story,
unthinkable save in a totalitarian regime, is also that of the burgeoning
Soviet Union and of the privileged few who, disregarding Stalin and his
growing anti-Semitic paranoia, believed that working in the shadows of the
mausoleum would protect them forever. Abandoned by the State since 1991, the
laboratory survives today through the patronage of the nouveaux riches and
the Russian mafia dynasties. Archival and contemporary photographs reinforce
the symbolic dimension of this page of history. Now, eighty years after the
October Revolution, Boris Yeltsin has requested a referendum to decide the
future of Lenin's embalmed remains.

Lenin Lives!: The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia
Nina Tumarkin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:15 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:13787] Re: Re: Re: red flags


> No, and the Russians haven't taken Lenin's tomb out of Red Square, either.
> --jks
>
> >
> >At 02:36 PM 6/21/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >>BTW, the JCP's [Japanese Communist Party's] daily newspaper is still
> >>called Akahata [Red Flag], even though it ceased to be revolutionary a
> >>long time ago
> >
> >has the British Labour Party dropped its "red flag" anthem?
> >
> >Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> >
>
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