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  • Russia revives debate over burying Lenin's corpse

    10/23/2005 8:03:58 PM PDT · by jb6 · 19 replies · 882+ views
    The Associated Press | 10/23/2005 | Jim Heintz
    MOSCOW — For more than six decades, glorious military parades and throngs of solemn Soviet citizens passed by the Red Square mausoleum where Vladimir Lenin's mummified corpse lies under glass. Then history passed him by. Now, nearing the 15th anniversary of the death of the Soviet Union, a debate is brewing about whether it's time to bury the body of the man who tried to bury capitalism. The debate isn't new. What's different this time are the intriguing hints that President Vladimir Putin is agreeable to a burial. He's often accused of taking Russia back to old Soviet ways, and...