Posted on 03/08/2013 11:06:59 AM PST by jimbo123
When Hugo Chavezs 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 Chavezs 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, its 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. Lenins 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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