Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long since turned to dust in a London cemetery, Karl Marx lives on in the turgid periods of Das Kapital and in the reverent thoughts of all right-minded Communists. That other god of the Soviet Olympus, Nikolai Lenin, remains visible in Moscow where science has kept the Russian Dictator's corpse intact for eleven years. Last week the Lenin tomb was closed to the public while Soviet workers busily installed air-conditioning equipment with a view to preserving the sacred remains for at least a century more...
When frail, tired "N. Lenin" (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) died in 1924, the Bolshevist high command decided upon a strictly non-Christian apotheosis. A conference of scientists was called to find means of preserving the body. Biochemist Boris Ilyich Zbarsky and Anatomist Vladimir Petrovich Vorobev offered to try, worked four months on the cadaver, which subsequently appeared under glass in a temporary tomb in the Red Square. When plans for the permanent tomb had finally been agreed on, the corpse vanished for 18 months into the recesses of the Kremlin. At last in 1930 the new mausoleum was completed...
...waxy features of the man who proclaimed the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. Other light there was none. Through that gloom, by last week, more than 8,000,000 persons had passed. Last year Scientists Zbarsky & Vorobev, permanent caretakers of the corpse, were awarded the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet honor...
Meanwhile ugly rumors were sprouting. Was Lenin's body shrinking? Was it decaying? Had the face caved in, been repaired? Was the image the actual corpse of Lenin? Last week Comrade Zbarsky indignantly answered such calumnies: "All the legends circulated abroad concerning a decaying condition of the body are false. On the contrary, we are now more than ever certain of the infallibility of our method." Thereupon it was announced that by October the Lenin tomb would be air-conditioned. Zbarsky had been fearful lest on warm days currents of air set in motion by throngs of pilgrims prove...
...blood red globe, symbol of World Revolution, hung before the Seventh World Communist Party Congress in Moscow last week, flanked by huge posters showing Karl Marx's hairy halo, Friedrich Engels' waterfall mustache, the bald cranium and spiked beard of Lenin and Joseph Stalin's well-oiled, glistening locks. For a month 600 Reds of all nations have been non-paying guests in Moscow, candidly preparing Revolution in all countries despite the Soviet State's pledge to President Roosevelt that it "would not permit the formation or residence on its territory of any organization or group...