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Mayor Joins Push To Bury Lenin

Associated Press

The mayor of Moscow threw his support Tuesday behind a campaign to bury the embalmed body of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, offering to hold a funeral with “all the honors.”

Many Russian politicians have called for removing Lenin’s mummified body - now on display in a granite mausoleum in Red Square - and burying it.

But Russian communists and other hard-liners, who revere Lenin as the leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, oppose any effort to move or bury the body.

In remarks reported by the Interfax news agency, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov noted the political controversy over what to do with the body and asserted that Lenin deserves to be interred “in a Christian way.”