The mausoleum in the Kremlin is 100 years old, but only 23% of Lenin remains in it: the history of the strangest political monument in the world
On August 1, 1924, six months after the death of Vladimir Lenin, a mausoleum was opened on Red Square in Moscow, where the body of the Bolshevik leader was put on display. Since then, the mausoleum has served as the main tribune of the country; the leader’s body was evacuated during the war,...
In Moscow, a man tried to steal the body of Lenin from the Mausoleum
On the night of February 6, a 42-year-old furniture assembler tried to steal Lenin's body from the Mausoleum. He was detained. Doctors determined that the man had an alcoholic mental disorder, RBC reports. “The incident occurred on the night of February 6. A man who tried to break into the mausoleum was detained...