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Lenin heads to a dump in Ukraine. (Original Post)
undeterred
Feb 2014
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Brigid
(17,621 posts)1. I wonder when the real Lenin is ever going to be buried.
Now *that* story is just morbid.
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)2. It is, it's morbid and really weird! n/t
former9thward
(31,997 posts)3. I have seen both Lenin and Ho Chi Minh.
They look very weird. Almost pure white.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)4. They did that to Ho Chi Minh too?
I did not know that.
Please just bury these poor guys and let them rest in peace!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)6. Taxidermy is an underrated art form.
But, yeah, yuk.
former9thward
(31,997 posts)7. Ho's Mausoleum in Hanoi
jsr
(7,712 posts)10. He actually wanted to be cremated:
http://www.vagabundomagazine.com/seeking-pickled-communist-corpses/
Seeking Pickled Communist Corpses
Posted By Susan Sharp
Seeking Pickled Communist Corpses
Posted By Susan Sharp
former9thward
(31,997 posts)11. Lenin wanted to be buried by his mother in St. Petersburg.
Stalin ignored the request so that the body could be used as a political prop.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)9. if they had wicks
they would burn lol.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. Yeah, I thought you meant the embalmed one.
No way was the actual guy that big.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)8. Looks like a scrapper got him. Thats a lot of bronze to just throw away.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)12. Maybe they can make urns out of him.