Wasn't it Lenin's will that he just get buried, no pomp or tomb involved?
--- That's what I thought. This is the statement of his neice on the Lenin Mausoleum's website: http://www.aha.ru/~mausoleu/documents/document2_e.htm
Having his embalmbed corpse on perpetual display brings to mind religious relics--things onto which oppressed sighing creatures project their hopes for some heart in a heartless world.
--- I suspect Stalin was trying to appeal to Orthodox traditions of saintly relics and so forth.
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