Posted on 02/24/2022 4:06:30 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
MOSCOW — Vladimir Lenin’s embalmed body has been on display in Red Square since 1924. Now another influential Vladimir has made clear that Lenin’s tomb isn’t going anywhere else.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently found time in his busy schedule — to compare Lenin’s polished granite mausoleum to the relics of saints on display in Orthodox monasteries.
“The communists continued the tradition,” Putin said of Lenin’s preservation, “and did it competently, in accordance with the demands of those times.”
“We must return to our historic roots,” he said, with “traditional values.”
The remarks, made last month during an interview with several prominent supporters, came alongside other proposals to revive symbolic elements of the old Soviet system, including bringing back a workers’ medal awarded to particularly industrious laborers.
Analysts say the turn toward Soviet symbolism is intended to shore up support from those who felt neglected by several years of market-oriented economic reforms under President Dmitri Medvedev, who handed the office back to Putin in the spring.
For Putin “the priority of a strong state over the interests of individuals is important,” said Dmitri Oreshkin, a political commentator.
A growing number of Russians (including Putin’s culture minister, Vladimir Medinsky) have said the tomb should be done away with. A 2011 poll by the Levada Center, an independent polling institute, showed 40 percent of Russians in favor of burying Lenin.
But Russia’s still-active Communist Party says that keeping Lenin in the Red Square is only natural.
Moving him would be a “barbaric act,” said Dmitri Novikov, the party’s ideologist.
“We Communists can say that this is our victory,” he said. “Despite anti-Soviet hysterics, in many ways the position and the opinion of society is that we should go back to Soviet heritage and restore values.”
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The mans been dead for 98 years. He stinks. Bury his rotting corpse. Better yet cremate it.
Good one.
I have no problem with it for the same reason I believe the Confederate Statues shouldn’t be taken down, regardless of my personal feelings about the Confederacy. It’s a part of their history, some people still choose to revere it.
I agree with you 100%.
I thought the dang corpse was growing mushrooms on it? And that was years ago.
Evil commie bastards love their fellow travellers.
🎵Give us dirty Lenin.🎵
Seattle and Portland were 2nd and 3rd choice…
A charming but vengeful and power-hungry Lenin, however, took it to the hard left by duplicity and brutal, unchecked physical force. His chosen #2, a petty street thug eventually known as Stalin, quickly took over after Lenin died of a stroke.
Modern day Russia would be well served by not promoting Lenin as an example of its traditional values. Anyone who does, for instance Putin, says a lot about their views on freedom.
I wouldn't compare Bolsheviks to the CSA.
Honoring Lenin is no different than if the Germans continued to honor Hitler.
I’m fine with that, except it’s a rotting corpse, not a statue. There is something morbid and creepy about keeping him on display.
Displaying Lenin’s body is like displaying the relics of the saints? I know that’s what the Communists had in mind, but for Putin, an alleged Orthodox Christian, to support that reasoning is more than a little bizarre. The Patriarch of Moscow, or even a humble priest, should set him straight on that. I have seen the largely-uncorrupted bodies of saints. The condition of their relics is seen as a sign from God of their holiness. The body of the murdering tyrant Lenin, if there is much of the real Lenin still there, is preserved by waxwork artists.
Put it in DC..it would be just as revered.
An interesting analogy. I understand Putin is looking for continuity and social stability - no "cancel culture."
Maybe they could have a proper Orthodox Christian ceremony on a tuesday morning, pray for the repose of Lenin's soul, so as to shift the focus. Then bury him in a mauseleum in the suburbs no one will go to. Respectful, but begin to reduce his cult.
How many naive Commie tourists from around the globe come to Moscow to visit the tomb? Hey, it’s Capitalism, baby!
Should become a dunghill.
I have no problem with it for the same reason I believe the Confederate Statues shouldn’t be taken down, regardless of my personal feelings about the Confederacy. It’s a part of their history, some people still choose to revere it.
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I agree. Good, bad or indifferent; history should not be erased.
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