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Of course, the idea of being mummified, put on display, and made into the object of a cult of personality ("Lenin Lives!") horrified him.
^^^^ CB: In my opinion the cult of the personality concept as Khruschev used it in his speech denouncing Stalin, is not correctly applied to a dead person. The harms of the cult can only be exercised by a living person. Visiting Lenin's mummy was one of my favorite parts of the trip. Special respect for
I actually asked a question on this in my party classes on a trip to the SU in 1985. But later I answered my own question. Marx , Engels and Lenin...Darwin are appropriately revered. Ancestor "worship" is the rational kernel of religion.