Should Lenin be buried?

[Kaleva]

Majority of Russians, according to an on line poll, wish him to be buried.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12266909

Am wondering if DUers feel the same way.

Results of this poll will be sent to the Russian people.

[Warpy]

1. Keeping his corpse pickled and on display seemed a little weird

I say plant him or fry him.

[Agent William]

21. The weird thing is that Lenin didn't want to have his body on display..

..he wanted to be buried beside his mother after he died. Lenin knew he was dying and he made those around him privy to his last wishes, another one of which was to keep Stalin as far away from power as possible. Yeah, it looks like those around him failed on two parts.

[slackmaster]

2. Think of it as sequestering the carbon in his body

Or recycling.

[Ken Burch]

4. Interesting question:what effect would it have on the contemporary world

if thousands of Lenin clones suddenly appeared?

[slackmaster]

6. I'm thinking some kind of Monty Pythonesque weird-out

It would surely be entertaining.

[Ken Burch]

3. My impression is that Lenin never wanted to be a figure of personal veneration

The whole Tomb thing was part of "Marxist-Leninism" (or as we knew it in the West, Stalinism), a mindset that Lenin(who was no saint, for the record)would never have endorsed had he lived to see it.

[LoZoccolo]

5. I have a paperweight on my desk of an accordion-folded series 1969 dollar encased in Lucite.

Curiously, the green color on the back is still of a brilliance rarely seen on even today's dollar bills.

As such, due to his status as a continuing experiment on how long a deceased human body can be preserved, I think that we should also encase him in clear Lucite. I should not that my response does not reflect any particular political belief.

[Kaleva]

12. In the spirit of being Green, I'd suggest pine pitch.

"PINE PITCH has been used for centuries as a powerful natural preservative. "

http://www.mtpitchblend.com/ournaturalingredients.html

[JoePhilly]

7. Your poll needs an OTHER ...

Why not ...

... Standing in a glass case at Moscow's airport to welcome visitors
... Positioned so his arms act like the hands on a big clock
... He could be the star character in a reality show called "Weekend at Lenin's"

There are so many possibilities.

[devilgrrl]

8. I think they should sell it on eBay!!!!

:silly:

[jdp349]

25. bam!

[jdp349]

26. long live zombie Lenin!

"must crush capitalism!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2FpDtqUQIo&feature=related

[deaniac21]

9. Only if it's Mulberry silk or satin.

[KittyWampus]

10. I say we trade his corpse for Reagan's as a cultural exchange.

[Laelth]

11. I think that's for the Russian people to decide. n/t

-Laelth

[Kaleva]

15. Why do you hate DU, America and the Constitution?

j/k! :)

[Laelth]

31. Smile. Kicked for a good sense of humor. n/t

:)

-Laelth

[JVS]

13. They'd be losing a perfectly good tourist attraction.

[Kaleva]

17. "This Old Tomb" is Russia's highest rated show.

Every week, viewers can watch Lenin slooowly decompose.

[NoPasaran]

14. Only if there are deed restrictions on the current mausoleum

That would prevent it from being turned into a Starbucks.

[Kurovski]

16. He's stinkin' up the joint.

Time to go.

[Countdown_3_2_1]

18. Make a reality show about it,

Contestants could design a crazy contraption to catapult or super slide Dead Leader into a concrete tomb, seal the door and let history pass by.

Displaying the body like a departed saint is creepy.

[Octafish]

19. Put the guy on tour.

It'd be his first day of honest work in a long time.

[pipi_k]

20. Why...is he starting to rot?

Find a Ziploc® food storage bag big enough, and he'll be OK..

[inna]

22. of course; bury the old dude.

"Results of this poll will be sent to the Russian people." rofl rofl as if they care!

[Pyrzqxgl]

23. Why do we care. I'd rather leave it up to the Russian people.

Maybe some Russian lefties want to build a memorial to him. I'd say that's
their right and we should stay out of it.

[gauguin57]

24. None of my beeswax, but ... I've seen the old dude four times in the mausoleum ...

... and it creeped me out every time I saw him. I can't be sure that head and those hands (which is all you see) aren't wax. The guards hustled us through so fast back in the day that you couldn't get a really good look.

I say bury him ... along with his cult of personality. But, you're right ... it's up to the Russian people.

[scarletwoman]

27. "Other" - I can't imagine why the hell any of us should give a shit. Let the Russians deal with it.

[Cleita]

28. Eventually, or he might end up in a house of horrors

in an amusement park in the future, like Elmer McCurdy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy

[Kaleva]

29. So far, 91% have voted "No".

[moondust]

30. Would they have to wake him up?

Is there any reason to keep him in his current state as an ongoing scientific/medical experiment?