The Red Square mausoleum where his embalmed corpse lies in an open sarcophagus is no longer a near-mandatory pilgrimage but a site of macabre kitsch, open only 15 hours a week.
The ideology that Lenin championed and spread over a vast territory is something of a sideshow in modern Russia.
“As a result of Bolshevik policy, Soviet Ukraine arose, which even today can with good reason be called ‘Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s Ukraine.'
The Mayakovsky poem that proclaimed Lenin's immortality was “a parting word, or a spell, or a curse,” Rudakov said.
At the annual military parade through Red Square, the structure is blocked from view by a tribune where dignitaries watch the festivities.
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