Mummies say it’s time to give Lenin a proper burial
In honour of the 85th anniversary of Lenin’s death, people planned to dress as mummies and gather at his mausoleum in Red Square to suggest that the ruthless tyrant should finally be buried in the ground. The timely gesture was thwarted, unfortunately, as Moscow police put the kibosh on festivities before they began.
Moscow police detained 25 people on Wednesday who had been planning to stage a protest to demand the removal of a mausoleum containing the embalmed body of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin from Red Square.
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The group had intended to dress up as mummies and demonstrate outside the mausoleum with a cardboard coffin. Media reports described the group as Orthodox monarchists who want Lenin buried as an ordinary person.
The mummies (young people wrapped from head to toe in white bandages) had hoped simply to join the solemn train of true believers trudging past Lenin’s body.
“There will be no crowd standing and chanting slogans… The mummies will join the procession of communists,” a spokesman for the organization said, promising that “the mummies will be quiet, just the way mummies should be.”
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An opinion poll has shown that two thirds of Russians believe that the embalmed body of the architect of the 1917 Russian Revolution should be removed from its mausoleum on Red Square and buried.
Lenin’s bloody brainchild, the Soviet Union, died in 1991. Isn’t it time to bury the old totalitarian yet?
h/t: Eternal Remont
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