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The Lenin legend in Russia PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 07 November 2007
By Reinhard Meier

Russia- Ninety years after the start of the Russian Revolution, journalist Reinhard Meier writes about the restoration of communism in today's Russia. "Nothing symbolises post-Soviet Russia's ambivalence towards its communist past more potently than the continued presence of the embalmed corpse of the leader of the revolution, Lenin, in the marble mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, which is still on display like the remains of a saint. Boris Yeltsin was the first democratically elected Russian president to toy with the idea of removing the prominent corpse and finally having it buried - just as Khrushchev had Stalin's corpse removed from the mausoleum and buried next to the Kremlin Wall one dark night. But Yeltsin lacked the courage to make this symbolic break, which would not be free of risk, with the Lenin legend. President Putin no doubt has both the power and the popularity to unequivocally distance himself from the legacy of the October Revolution. But the head of state obviously has no intention of doing so."
 
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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

Taphophilia Facts

California is home to two Presidential gravesites, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.
 

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

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“And thou, his Florence, to thy trust Receive and keep, Keep safe his dedicated dust, His sacred sleep. So shall thy lovers, come from far, Mix with thy name As morning-star with evening-star His faultless fame.”

A.C. Swinburne

Grave Epigrams

Tom Smith is dead, and here he lies,
Nobody laughs and nobody cries;
Where his soul's gone, or how it fares,
Nobody knows, and nobody cares.

Newbury, England 1742

 

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