Kremlin Assumes Financial Burden of Keeping Lenin’s Mummy Looking Fresh
Marina Galperina · 04/13/16 12:07PMThe exquisitely taxidermied corpse of Russia’s communist revolutionary turns 146 next week. Just this January, two Russian deputies urged to “end the outrage” and “inhumanity” and bury Lenin already, the “Christian” way, but Putin didn’t want to “divide society.” And so, the sarcophagus is to remain above ground, on display in the Red Square mausoleum.