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The Russian people carry flags, flowers and photographs of Lenin at an event marking 147 years since the Russian revolutionary leader’s birth in late October.
The Architecture Association of the Russian Federation has just announced that it must abandon the competition to renovate Lenin’s Mausoleum on Red Square due to strong opposition.
According to the Moscow Times, on Monday, the contest was canceled only after opening 24 hours.
The Russian Communist Party, in the words of its party leader, Congressman Duma Gennady Zyuganov, called the contest a “trick to mess with the graves of Lenin,” the Bolshevik revolutionary who founded the Soviet Union.
The Russian Architecture Association competition invites the public to contribute an initiative to renovate and remodel the facade of Lenin’s Mausoleum once his body is removed.
Since Lenin’s death in 1924, his mummy has been preserved and has become a symbol of the communist regime of the Soviet era.
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Lenin and his wife Krupskaya posed in their own home, the Russian revolutionary leader overthrew Tsar Nicholas II and established a dictatorship that he called a ‘proletarian tyranny’.
Will Stalin’s work ‘live forever’?
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lenin was asked to be cremated or buried in a cemetery.
Supporters of this plan say that Lenin’s mummification was Stalin’s initiative and completely contrary to the communist spirit and traditional values of Orthodox orthodoxy.
According to Georgy Manaev, who wrote in Russia Beyond, specializing in Russian history, “Lenin’s grave is the work of Stalin.”
In the will, Vladimir Lenin (Ulyanov) wants to be buried next to his mother’s grave.
His wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, fiercely opposed the display of Lenin’s body, but Stalin did not listen.
The dictator “took a place” in Lenin’s mausoleum after his death in 1953 and the front of the mausoleum was inscribed with Stalin’s name under Lenin’s name.
In 1961, many Soviet communist activists openly demanded that Stalin be removed from the mausoleum and the leadership agreed to remove Stalin and bury him in the Kremlin wall.
However, the removal of Lenin from the mausoleum still encounters opposition from those who adhere to the former Soviet Union, even though Russia has now officially returned God and the Orthodox to the constitution.
According to the Moscow Times, people will have to “wait until the generation of the cult of Lenin dies” before they can go back to the plan to get him out of the Mausoleum.
