Now it remains to be seen how much is left of Lenin. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: October 22, 1993| Author: McKinney, Jack | Copyright information 
    You may have read that the new mayor of Moscow thinks it's time to give Vladimir Ilyich Lenin a proper burial. 
    No joke. Even though the father of the Soviet Union has been dead for almost 70 years, his body can still be seen, under glass, inside a marble and granite mausoleum. 
    For three generations of Muscovites, Lenin's Tomb was the holy of holies. Even following the failed coup of 1991, when the newly emancipated proles were destroying anything redolent of the unfulfilled ...

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