Should He Stay or Should He Go?

Russians can't decide what to do with what's left of good old Lenin. The NY Times reports that Putin has been testing the idea of closing the Mausoleum and moving Lenin's body elsewhere. Mixed responses here:

[Leader of Russia's remnant of the Communist Party Gennadi I.] Zyuganov described those who would dare move those Communist figures as people "who do not know the country's history and stretch out their dirty hands and muddy ideas to the national necropolis."

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"It is time to get rid of this horrible mummy," said Valeriya Novodvorskaya, head of the Democratic Union, a small reform party. "One cannot talk about any kind of democracy or civilization in Russia when Lenin is still in the country's main square."

Whatever the outcome, Lenin was definitely right about one thing - the question really is, What Is To Be Done?

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• lenin
• russia