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Lenin's Sainted Memory Remains Inviolable In the Age of Glasnost
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"Lenin Lives."
In seven decades of Soviet power, no slogan is more enduring. In
a period of historic self-examination, when the Soviet press
regularly attacks Joseph Stalin as a murderer and Leonid Brezhnev as
a crook, the name of Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, is
still sacred.
Stinging arctic winds whip across Red Square, yet thousands queue
up for hours in the icy cold for the chance to spend their alloted 80
seconds inside the Lenin Mausoleum. There, in a guarded, dimly
lighted room, the faithful silently shuffle past Lenin in his coffin,
his face a waxy yellow, his eerie ...
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