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...When you explained the procedure that the Russians go through to preserve the body of Lenin, I was reminded of those wonderful lines from Robert Service in his The Ballad of Lenin's Tomb...
...borne retaliation against any imperialist aggressor. From high on the facade of the Moscow Hotel, the usual giant portrait of Nikita Khrushchev eyeballed the crowd, and-as usual-the man himself, surrounded by the same Presidium, waved his Homburg in the middle of the lineup atop Lenin's tomb...
...been terrible for Ivan. He had back trouble, which made him just miserable every time he had to stand up or bend over. No wonder he felt like killing people. This fascinating historical tidbit came to light when the Russians removed Czar Ivan IV (1530-84) from his Kremlin tomb last year and turned the bones over to Anthropologist-Sculptor Mikhail Gerasimov, a specialist in reconstructing physical appearance from bone structure. Gerasimov got the backache idea from studying the skeleton, has now finished two busts of the 16th century ruler-one showing the muscles of Ivan's left side...
...sense, it is absurd to find Communists today fighting each other-and the rest of the world-over a tomb, with a mass of dated polemics used both as sacred writ and a manual of strategy. But unlike monarchists, Reds cannot find legitimacy in a family tree or by divine right. Unlike democrats, they do not draw their mandate from the people they rule. Communist legitimacy, such as it is, derives from the writings of Karl Marx and from the words and deeds of Lenin, the first man to apply Marxism to a living nation...
...just about the only sure thing is that the split, as such, will never solve the West's own problems, or preserve peace, or assure freedom. After all, no matter how Moscow and Peking interpret their Lenin, no matter what they read in that polished marble of his tomb, he is still the man who said: "We are all Chekists...