Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Lenin's Moving Down Town


The body of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Great October Revolution, which has been resting in Kremlin’s Mausoleum for decades, will be committed to earth with all honours, the way a country’s leader should be interred.
Lenin’s body may finally be buried outside Moscow

The Federal Memorial Complex where greatest personas of Russian and Soviet history will be interred is expected to be unveiled in Moscow by 2010 to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. The cemetery will have several alleys. The main alley will comprise only 30 tombs.


“There will be Lenin’s tomb on the cemetery as well,” said Russian painter and project leader Sergei Goriaev in an interview with Zhizn newspaper. “The problem escalated long ago. At the session of the organizing committee devoted to the building of the memorial complex they discussed the possibilities to rebury Lenin and other great people interred on the Red Square. However, there is no official decision yet."


Russian officials are contemplating relocating the body of past leader Valdimir Lenin. They want to bury him in a Federal Memorial Complex which will contain the great people of Russia. This article shows us just one of the many interesting happenings of Russia. It will be intersting to see the layout of this new complex.

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