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[B]Russians want Lenin removed from Red Square [/B]
[B]Two-thirds of Russians want Vladimir Lenin to be removed from his Red Square mausoleum in central Moscow, a new poll has shown. [/B]
The poll, organised by Vladimir Putin's ruling United [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/"][B]Russia[/B][/URL] party, comes after a senior figure in the party sparked a lively debate on the issue, saying the time had come to respect Lenin's last wishes and bury him in St Petersburg alongside his mother.
"Lenin was an extremely controversial political figure and his presence as the main figure in a necropolis in the heart of our country is absurd," Anatoly Medinsky, an MP and member of the party's governing committee, said.
Only 10 per cent of Lenin's corpse remained, he said, alleging that the rest had been "ripped out and replaced a long time ago". The body's presence in a purpose-built mausoleum on Red Square had turned the country's central square into a cemetery and was "blasphemous", Mr Medinsky added.
Lenin's waxy corpse remains a popular tourist attraction and is regularly treated with a special cocktail of chemicals to stop it from degrading.
But with a parliamentary election looming later this year and a presidential poll next year, analysts believe that the ruling United Russia party may be considering closing the Red Square mausoleum in order to show the world it is serious about modernising the country.
The poll, organised online at a specially created site mischievously named Goodbye Lenin suggested that most Russians agreed. As of Sunday afternoon, almost 200,000 votes had been cast with more than two-thirds saying they favoured Lenin being buried.
It was possible to vote more than once however and the Russian Communist party, which is staunchly opposed to Lenin's removal, claimed the results were being rigged in order to pave the way for a bill ordering his burial.
"This is about distracting people's attention from social problems and genuine issues concerning the Russian Federation," Valery Rashkin, a Communist MP, told the Ekho Moskvy radio station.
Lenin, who died in 1924, is still revered by the Russian Communist party as an ideological genius who laid the foundations for the world's largest superpower.[/quote]
[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8276991/Russians-want-Lenin-removed-from-Red-Square.html[/url]
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I never knew his body was still there in flesh kinda weired they took bits of him apart.
Damn, I wanted to see it once in my life. If they remove it I'll be quite disappointed.
Wow. That's an interesting development. I mean they may not be proud of their history for the past 100 years or so, but they shouldn't deny it.
Also what Meganfanx said. I want to see Lenin's body once in my life.
That's dumb to be honest.
Like it or not, he was part of their history.
If the people want it, let them have it
Why? Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
It's cruel, unwarranted, and inappropriate in every manner. He should be removed and placed where he wished, alongside his mother.
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;27610401]Damn, I wanted to see it once in my life. If they remove it I'll be quite disappointed.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.funatiq.com/images/lenin-corpse.jpg[/img]
How's that?
In my opinion, he should be buried next to his mother as he requested.
[QUOTE=Spirit_Breaker;27610432]That's dumb to be honest.
Like it or not, he was part of their history.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]saying the time had come to respect Lenin's last wishes and bury him in St Petersburg alongside his mother. [/QUOTE]
Eh, not really, Yeah it's part of their history but the USSR has been gone for sometime now, time to move on.
[QUOTE=iusehax;27610335] I never knew his body was still there in flesh kinda weired they took bits of him apart.[/QUOTE]
His body was broken down and distributed to the Proletariat.
They should have just left a statue and buried him in the first place
I like the statue idea. They should respect his wishes.
Quickly, Bury him before he comes back.
[img]http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/5571/lenin20smashing202.jpg[/img]
I want to see his corpse before they remove it.
[QUOTE=The mouse;27610452]Why? Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.[/QUOTE]
Those who use quotes incorrectly are doomed to obtain boxes.
I say we bury him and stop pickling him.
[QUOTE=The mouse;27610452]Why? Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.[/QUOTE]
It's not like they're censoring everything on the internet that has to due with the cold war or communism, they're burying the body of one of their leaders that's been on display for decades.
I wanted to see it once in my life, too, but I think it was wrong to begin with to idolize Lenin and go against his wishes. I think that it's time to let Lenin be buried.
it's cruel that they put him there in the first place but it's just as bad that they want to move hiim now that he's been dead for almost 90 years
His current state is already a huge disgrace.
Heh, mommy's boy :v:
But why the fuck did they "mummify" him in the first place?
Taking his actual body out of Red Square would be fine, but there should still be a memorial or something.
[QUOTE=Spirit_Breaker;27610432]That's dumb to be honest.
Like it or not, he was part of their history.[/QUOTE]
You don't get it. He was revered by them. Putting him on display like an object is absolutely not what he wanted.
[QUOTE=Spirit_Breaker;27610432]That's dumb to be honest.
Like it or not, he was part of their history.[/QUOTE]
They're asking to respect his final wishes and bury him beside his mother.
What they are doing is a nice thing you pratt.
I think the first few posters are getting Lenin confused with Stalin.
[QUOTE=bravehat;27615308]They're asking to respect his final wishes and bury him beside his mother.
What they are doing is a nice thing you pratt.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, I understood it wrong.
Old, but relevant.
[URL="http://depletedcranium.com/comrade-lenin-gets-a-bath/"]Lenin gets a bath
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[url]http://depletedcranium.com/comrade-lenin-gets-a-bath/[/url]
Oh god they bathe him
:barf:
[editline]23rd January 2011[/editline]
Fuck you ninja
If he wanted to be buried next to his mother then he should be.
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