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A photographic guide to the world’s embalmed leaders
Washington Post ^ | 3/8/13 | Caitlin Dewey

Posted on 03/08/2013 11:06:59 AM PST by jimbo123

When Hugo Chavez’s embalmed body is laid in a glass casket sometime next week, he will join at least eight other world leaders whose remains are on display for all eternity … or at least for as long as their keepers can preserve them.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced Thursday that Chavez’s body would be on permanent display at the Museum of the Revolution so that “his people will always have them.” While that idea may sound grotesque, it’s also not particularly novel.

The Russians, arguably the ones who perfected the practice, have put both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin on long-term display. Lenin’s body has been embalmed in a large tomb near the Kremlin since shortly after his death in 1924, preserved by a steady 61 degree temperature and a strict regimen of mild bleachings and soaks in glycerol and potassium acetate.

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To: jimbo123

Pope John XXIII is laid out in St. Peter’s, although the sequencing of the display was different. He was properly buried at the time of death. His body was moved after he was beatified and was found to be well preserved, so it was decided to put him on display. It’s a little grotesque IMHO, but hey ... it’s Rome, so over the top fits right in.


21 posted on 03/08/2013 11:28:12 AM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx

As a Catholic I wish the Church would quit doing stuff like this. Makes us all look like some sort of creepy cult. He should be buried to rest in peace until the Lord returns.


22 posted on 03/08/2013 11:30:29 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jimbo123
This one got left off the list somehow...

23 posted on 03/08/2013 11:30:38 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: jimbo123
Don't cry for me Venezuela ♩ ♬ ♩ ♬
24 posted on 03/08/2013 11:30:42 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: jimbo123

“Never forget Willie the Wimp!”

Or Stevie Ray Vaughan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLZI2z19vbQ


25 posted on 03/08/2013 11:31:22 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: BenLurkin

He looks like the one that *does* the embalming actually.


26 posted on 03/08/2013 11:32:13 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: EricT.

27 posted on 03/08/2013 11:34:35 AM PST by jimbo123
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28 posted on 03/08/2013 11:36:54 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: BenLurkin

Yikes.....ratboyman is scary.


29 posted on 03/08/2013 11:37:48 AM PST by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: jimbo123

From what I’ve read, there’s very little of the original Lenin left. Eyes, ears, nose — all wax now. The brain was removed when he died and of course he never had a heart ...


30 posted on 03/08/2013 11:43:30 AM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: jimbo123

Orwell’s Major, the Pig.


31 posted on 03/08/2013 11:45:57 AM PST by lurk
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These pickled dictators are just a last grasp of their cult of personality. The memory of them is important not their deeds or words. Look at the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials in Washington...the emphasis is on their words carved into the memorial.

I was also struck by the video of the changing of the guards at Ho Chi Minh's tomb. They reminded me of our own guards at the tomb of the unknowns in Arlington. The big difference is that we bestow this honor on ordinary unknown soldiers killed in defending this country. No leaders or even presidents are given this honor.

32 posted on 03/08/2013 12:01:35 PM PST by The Great RJ
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“I will process anyone, anywhere, for just 99.95. No ups. No extras. Just 99.95!”


33 posted on 03/08/2013 12:20:11 PM PST by Oratam
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When Obama dies—he will be mummified and preserved in state for all time! Watch and see if I am right. People will be sent to the camps for not mourning with enough passion. His Tomb on the Mall in Washington will be visited by all with lines of subjects waiting to have there card stamped after viewing the body to get there extra 500 calories rations.


34 posted on 03/08/2013 12:21:14 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: MARTIAL MONK

When it’s time for Pelosi, she doesn’t need any more preservatives.....


35 posted on 03/08/2013 12:31:08 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: sphinx

One hopes it will not become a habit...sd


36 posted on 03/08/2013 1:26:07 PM PST by shotdog (I love my country. It's our government I'm afraid of.)
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To: jimbo123

I’m told they all use Brawndo to preserve the bodies.

It’s got electrolytes.


37 posted on 03/08/2013 1:36:35 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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Did Geraldo die????


38 posted on 03/08/2013 1:41:11 PM PST by cblue55 (The original point and click interface was a Smith and Wesson.)
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To: jimbo123; no-to-illegals; MestaMachine; thouworm; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; dragonblustar; ...
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A photographic guide to the world’s embalmed leaders

Dead socialists and assorted despots photos at the link...

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39 posted on 03/08/2013 1:54:36 PM PST by LucyT (In the 20th century 260 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: LucyT

How.....morbid.


40 posted on 03/08/2013 2:24:57 PM PST by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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