101 years after his death and 95 years on display in the famous Red Square Mausoleum, Vladimir Lenin will share the fate of ordinary people. The decision by the Russian Interior Ministry, made three days ago, is already causing major reactions, both from communists and Russians regardless of ideology.
According to the decision, the Mausoleum will be permanently closed and Lenin's body will be buried in his birthplace, Ulyanovsk, on September 3, 2025, in an official ceremony attended by high-ranking government officials.
According to the decision, the Mausoleum will be permanently closed and Lenin's body will be buried in his birthplace, Ulyanovsk, on September 3, 2025, in an official ceremony attended by high-ranking government officials.
"This is an unacceptable decision that insults the leader of the October Revolution and founder of the USSR," Anatoly, 79, a Moscow resident, told the TASS news agency.
The Press Office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation expressed its disappointment with this decision of the government, which called on President Putin to intervene personally to have it overturned.
According to the RIA Novosti agency, this decision was made for financial reasons, due to the very high cost of preserving Lenin's body. "We can no longer meet the monthly needs required to preserve a body that is over 100 years old," the Secretary General of the Russian Ministry of Finance noted in his statements.
It is recalled that the body of Vl. I. Lenin, who died on January 21, 1924, has been on display in the Mausoleum on Red Square since 1930, attracting tens of thousands of visitors every year.
The Bolshevik revolutionary is expected to be buried next to his parents, in a special burial monument that is already being prepared in the city of Ulyanovsk.
The Press Office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation expressed its disappointment with this decision of the government, which called on President Putin to intervene personally to have it overturned.
According to the RIA Novosti agency, this decision was made for financial reasons, due to the very high cost of preserving Lenin's body. "We can no longer meet the monthly needs required to preserve a body that is over 100 years old," the Secretary General of the Russian Ministry of Finance noted in his statements.
It is recalled that the body of Vl. I. Lenin, who died on January 21, 1924, has been on display in the Mausoleum on Red Square since 1930, attracting tens of thousands of visitors every year.
The Bolshevik revolutionary is expected to be buried next to his parents, in a special burial monument that is already being prepared in the city of Ulyanovsk.
