MOSCOW, Dec 19 — The body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin should stay in its mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow, so long as Russians retain personal memories of the Soviet period, President Vladimir Putin said today. Asked at his annual press conference whether the embalmed body of the first...
The body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin should stay in its mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow, Vladimir Putin said. — AFP pic
“In my view we should not touch this, at least while we have very many people who connect their own lives with this... connect this with achievements of the past, of the Soviet years,” said Putin. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov in 2017 said Putin had promised him that Lenin’s body would not be moved on his watch.
But he added that “from the position of my experience today, I understand that as well as the ideological aspect there is also the geopolitical.”
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