THE GRANITE body of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) is lying chopped into 125 pieces in a forest somewhere south-east of Berlin but its exact whereabouts is being kept a close secret by the city's post-Communist rulers.
The pieces are the remains of a 60ft-high statue of the former Soviet leader that dominated the city's grim, tower-block-flanked Lenin Square for 21 years until it was torn down in a fit of ideological cleansing after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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