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Friday, 22.04.2011
Lenin's Mausoleum opens: Just in time for Lenin's Birthday
Moscow. The Lenin Mausoleum next to the Kremlin reopened for visitors today, after the regular restoration work on Lenin's mummy had been completed. Meanwhile there is still a dispute over the future of the mausoleum.
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Since 1924, the embalmed body of the leader of the Socialist World revolution and founder of the Soviet Union, has been worked at by experts of the Institute of Biomedical Technologies in regular intervals, in order to eliminate defects. Just in time for his Birthday, on the 22nd April, the newly embalmed Vladimir Lenin may be visited again.
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As of the 19th April, the mausoleum will open to visitors from 10am to 1pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
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Visit Lenin, while you are still able to
However, it is unclear, how long the Mausoleum, in its present form, will continue to exist.
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union it is debated again and again, whether to bury Lenin or perhaps to send him on an international touring exhibition around the world.
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For some time, Mikhail Fedotov, the President's human rights representative, had proposed to change the Mausoleum into an "ordinary Museum".
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One should not be able to visit only Lenin, but also the unique technical facilities of the mausoleum, including for example the lifting platform, where Lenin's glass coffin is resting upon.
Original German text can be found here >>>
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