And I just checked: YES he is still laid out in 2017. GROSS. Here’s another article about how they keep him. ::shudder:: SO GROSS.
OMG, I just saw an article in the AJC today that totally grossed me out!
I had NO idea that Vladimir Lenin’s body is OUT FOR THE PUBLIC TO VIEW. Did everyone else know this? The man’s been dead since 1924 for fuck’s sake!
AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!
That has got to be the grossest thing I’ve heard lately! Here is the wiki with the gory details of how they keep the body intact! Eeeewwww!
They should have run this article at Halloween! Creeeepy!
AND here is a slideshow of the rest of the deceased heads of state that lie in state in perpetuity. Gross. :P
Well, he’s behind a glass case and embalmed. From what I understand, he looks more like a dummy than a real person.
I’ve known about Lenin for awhile. I don’t think it’s creapy. Then again, I like to tour old cemetaries.
Michael Jackson used to use the same technology, except when the kids were over. Something about sleeping (or being dead) in a hypobarometric chamber sealed off from the world keeps the years at bay.
Oh well I’m not interested on the details of the body keeping…but that’s just insane, how can science work for things like this one? Must be very creepy to see!
Cemeteries: yes! Icky preserved bodies: no! The chamber is not a hypo-blah one, it’s just a temp controlled case. The rest is done with “maintenance”. Ick.
They say he looks like a mannequin. Yah, I’ll say! They also keep Mao Tse-tung of China and Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam on display with this “method”.
Ok, enough about bodies! I’ll find another topic to change the mood!
it used to be considered a mark of good citizenship to vist lenin’s tomb. you could get “taken away” for expressing disgust/horror at the preservation of lenin.
i thought they had taken him away in the early ’90’s as it was no longer PC to be interested in a commie.