Kremlin insider calls for Lenin to be buried http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1068199720071010
Wed Oct 10, 2007
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians should move the embalmed body of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin from Moscow's Red Square and bury him as an act of closure on Russia's turbulent past, a Kremlin insider said on Wednesday. Lenin led the Bolshevik revolution in November 1917 which cemented Communist rule in Russia and the Soviet Union for the next 74 years.
"We have only just moved away from revolutions, from turbulent political battles, the country wants to live normally, to work, to be rich," Vladimir Kozhin, one of the Kremlin's top administrators in charge of its property portfolio including Red Square, told the official daily, Rossiskaya Gazeta. Russia's first post-Soviet leader, Boris Yeltsin, more than once spoke in favor of removing the mausoleum from Red square. But strong pro-Communist sentiment in the country prevented him from doing so. http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1068199720071010