Re: Putin

[Carl Remick <carlremick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Chris Doss <nomorebounces@xxxxxxx>
>
> By the way . . . Lenin is dead. This might come as a shock. I believe they
> have finally taken his body off display. I mean Leninism is dead.
>
> ---
> He's still in the Mausoleum on Red Square (which is a really nice little
> piece of architecture). They recently dressed him in some new, more
> up-to-date and fashionable threads.

[As corpses go, he's quite a la mode.]

Friday, 07-Nov-2003 6:40AM PST      Story from AFP

MOSCOW - Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, whose body remains on display in
the mausoleum on Red Square, is getting a new suit, an official said Friday
on the 86th anniversary of the Russian revolution.

Lenin will be given new clothes during works that will be carried on his
body between November 10 and December 29, said embalming expert Yuri
Denisov-Nikosky, a senior official at the Russian centre for bio-medical
technologies.

The former Soviet leader has lain in the mausoleum on Red Square since his
death in 1924, preserved by enbalming despite his declared wish to be buried
in his native Saint Petersburg.

Denisov-Nikolsky said Lenin's new suit will be his 10th during the 30 years
in which he had been involved in preserving the body, the RIA Novosti news
agency said.

New clothes, including a white spotted tie, are ordered every three years,
he said.

After he was first buried in the mausoleum, Lenin was dressed in military
uniform, but "just before the (1941-45) war, someone decided it symbolised a
militarist nature and he was immediately dressed in civilian clothes,"
Denisov-Nikolsky said. ...

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Carl

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