Lenin died 102 years ago today and his mummified body remains on display in Moscow despite complaints from Putin era politicians that it costs too much.
Lenin was a great revolutionary and there remains much to be gained by studying his writings and his grasp of strategies and tactics.
He was not however a saint and the decision to retain his body- principally led by Stalin- was a nod to the tradition not of Communism but the backward ideas of the Russian orthodox church. There was a minority strand that thought that scientific advance would be able eventually to bring Lenin back to life. Well we’ve got as far as the hologram
Lenin’s wife Krupskaya was clear on the matter (as was Trotsky). She wrote
Do not allow your mourning for Illich to take the form of external reverence for his person. Do not raise memorials to him,name places after him.
Stalin had other ideas primarily that the politics of Lenin were to be kept in a tomb in Moscow and not let out
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