A Christian burial for Lenin?(a country debates the issue)(Brief Article)

From: The Christian Century | Date: August 11, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS after the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, his body, embalmed in a mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square, is the subject of political controversy in Russia. Lenin, who led the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 and became the head of the first Soviet government, was a national hero throughout the communist period, and is still revered by Russia's communists. The fate of his corpse could be a crucial factor in Russia's next parliamentary and presidential elections.

"He will be buried," President Boris Yeltsin told a Moscow newspaper last month. "The question is when." ...

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