Stepashin Tells About Yeltsin's Plans to Demolish Lenin's Mausoleum

Interfax ^ | 4/26/17

[marshmallow]

Moscow, April 26, Interfax - Former Russian prime minister Sergey Stepashin told how in 1998 acting Russian president Boris Yeltsin gave him an order to demolish Lenin's mausoleum.

"Boris Nikolayevich charged me with demolishing the mausoleum. It was 1998," Stepashin said in his interview with Istorik magazine.

Then Stepashin chaired the Ministry of Interior and made an official visit to England.

"When I came back, I went to his cabinet and Yeltsin said: "Sergey Vadimovich, I made a decision to demolish the mausoleum." I told him: "Well, but how does it relate to the Ministry of Interior?" "The Ministry of Interior should secure order," he answers. "Well," I say, "I am a minister and should fulfill orders of the Chief Commander, the only thing I can't secure, Boris Nikolayevich, is that you still will be the president and I will be a minister after such a decision," Stepashin recalls.

According to him, he started persuading Yeltsin not to demolish the tomb.

"If you trust me, then please listen to me, I tell you honestly, it is not the right time. From the Christian point of view, Lenin's body should not be demonstrated. It is a sin. But it is not the right time to demolish the mausoleum. Don't do it! Doesn't it incommode you?" Yeltsin grumbled, but listened to my arguments," Stepashin said.

[CondorFlight]

Sidenote:

Yeltsin was ordered to demolish the Ipatiev house, where the Romanovs were shot, when he was the party leader in that province. There were evidently fears it might become
a shrine of some sort.He complied.

[wideminded]

Georgi Dmitrov was the first communist leader of Bulgaria. After death his embalmed body was displayed like Lenin’s in a prominent mausoleum in Sofia. After the fall of communism in Bulgaria, Dmitrov was cremated and the mausoleum was eventually destroyed.

[RedWulf]

Lenin’s tomb will eventually be destroyed but the as Communist party is still pretty big in Russia it’s going to be a while. The Communist party is mostly full of old people who won’t will be around for much longer.

BTW, there’s a real Communist threat in America. I’m talking to more and more young Communists true believers being brainwashed in US colleges. One guy I talked to the other day was praising the elimination of the kulaks. If we don’t do something about it’s going to be the US with a Communist insurrection on our hands.