Posted on 11/13/2017 5:22:36 PM PST by marshmallow
Moscow, November 13, Interfax - The body of Vladimir Lenin must be buried but at present this could shake the political situation in Russia, according to Alexander Shchipkov, first deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for Church, Society and Media Relations, and an advisor to the State Duma speaker.
"Let's impose a moratorium, five to ten years [on the subject of reburying the leader]. If we don't bury [him], our children will, he has already lain in state for 70 years! But of course, buried he should be," Shchipkov said during a lecture at the Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow.
He agreed that a situation, where an unburied body is lying at the heart of Russia, "is a wrong situation from all points of view - human, Christian and political-technological ones," while noting that "the person, who will finally decide to bury Lenin and do so, will go down in history," Shchipkov said.
However, as the world, not just Ukraine, is tearing down Soviet-era monuments, there should be a temporary moratorium on the campaign against the political symbols, the expert said.
Such a moratorium would provide an possibility to develop and continue the inter-national consensus discovered with Crimea's reunification with Russia in 2014, and "support it rather than shaking and breaking it," Shchipkov said.
"What is more important for us today: searching for this inter-national consensus that would keep us and our children safe from possible next blood[shed], or a timetable for Lenin's burial?" the clergyman asked rhetorically.
Saw the Lenin burial site. He looks like a plastic fruit centerpiece you buy at WalMart for $9.95.
Bury the turd; he stinks.
I recall reading some years back that Lenin himself indicated that he wanted to be buried near his mother and that it was Stalin that had him preserved in the state that he is still in, as part of the cult of Lenin he wanted to create in order to legitimize his, Stalin’s, leadership.
You could probably melt him down and turn him into a thousand Christmas candles.
If I remember correctly, the Russians had to glue Lenin’s nose back on in about 2002 and didn’t do a very good job; the nose slid down to his bellybutton. I think his eyeball popped out, too, about that time. And his toe nails grew three-inches from feeding the corpse Scott’s Turf Builder and were sticking out his shoes. They had to trim his eyebrows with a weed whacker every two weeks.
“You could probably melt him down and turn him into a thousand Christmas candles.”
That would be the Lord’s perfect irony, yes?
Stick a candle wick in him!
... meanwhile his soul is burning in hell.
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