Lenin gets a body lift.

Pretty interesting set of pics here on Lenin getting his mummified body cleaned-

http://englishrussia.com/?p=659

Pretty weird that a politician would have his body on display for 80 years. I wonder why all the Reagan cultists didn't demand that his body be preserved forever?

just throw that carcass in the ground, and be done with it already.

for being 80 years gone.

It was like walking into a zoo of the dead, I don't doubt the same techniques used on those animals are usable on human animals either.

Apparently, there are all sorts of theories running around on it, since it's surrounded in secrecy. I swear they have a black light on the guy and got in trouble with the guard when I started looking for it. People don't glow in a totally black room without some lighting help.

I don't care whether he's on display or not but I do believe they should show some respect for the dead and not publish these pictures.

I'm doubt Lenin knows that his body is still on display but I've seen at least one Dane on display.

But yes, this is a little too much.

Is he displayed in a formaldehyde-type liquid? What are the photos on the bottom? Can I have one?
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than Lenin.

Some homeless guy from the 1920s. Wouldn't want to spoil the real thing with anything experimental.

:puke:

Ewwwwww.

After Lenin's death, they researched and actually invented many body preservation techniques.

Even Mao Tse-Tung was preserved in a frantic effort to mimic Lenin's preservation, but a wax replica was occasionally substituted for the real thing.

But the actual processes used were NOT pretty.

People are animals too, you know. It's not like they'd need to know much more than any taxidermist.

I go to linger with him and notice how nice his suit was and that his ears had shrunken.

I was just reading The Greatest Battle, about the battle for Moscow and how he was whisked outta town and preserved during THE war.

...I read that somewhere....

:eyes:

or at least that is what we thought of after we passed out of the room he is in. Nasty.

they treated Lenin like an Egyptian Pharaoh who claim the divine right of kings.

Wow! That's some creepy stuff, there, Old and In the Way. Beep!

I'm looking at a page of portrait photos of Russians and every one is a work of art.

How disgusting whoever it is.

;)

The Egyptians did a pretty good job of preserving the dead.

I wonder if they're going mummify Chertoff.

I read a joke once about Armand Hammer of Al Gore Sr & Occidental Petroleum fame. His father was Julius Hammer, the head of the US Communist Party at the time of the Bolshevik takeover so he had lots of good connections. At one point he opened a shop on Fifth Avenue and sold off the personal possessions of the Romanov family including the girls' dolls. But that's another story.

Anyway, Armand Hammer goes to Moscow in the early 80s to see himself in a play. At the same time, this joke was going around Moscow: Armand Hammer goes to Red Square to visit to visit Lenin's mausoleum but finds, as tourists often do, that it is "closed for repair." Undaunted he approaches one of the guards and demands entry.

"It's closed for repair," the guard snaps. "You can't go in."

Hammer is furious. "Do you know who I am?" he asks. "I'm Armand Hammer."

"I said, the mausoleum is closed for repair."

Hammer starts going through his pockets and eventually pulls out a wrinkled and yellowed piece of paper. "This is a personal letter to me from Vladimir Ilych himself," Hammer intones. "It says 'Come and visit me anytime.'"

but I love to check it out every once in awhile. The pictures are fabulous, and the feedback is interesting.

The freakiest time was 1978 ... when Russians lined up for 6 hours to be hustled through to see what appear to be fake hands and a fake head -- for about 30 seconds (the armed guards would give you the hairy eyeball if you lingered even a second).

I wouldn't wait 6 hours to see ANYONE's dead body.

For repairs or something. :(