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Lenin Statue, Schwerin, Germany
Lenin Statue, Schwerin, Germany
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WHEN Lenin died in at the age of 53 in 1924, despite his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya’s strong protestations, a process of political hagiography was instantly initiated by Joseph Stalin, who set up the Commission for Immortalisation of Lenin’s Memory.
Contrary to Lenin’s own wish for an ordinary funeral, his body was embalmed and put on public display as a quasi religious relic.
Krupskaya pointed out that Lenin had no time for pomp and ceremony and profoundly disliked all adulation sincere or otherwise. She believed his legacy should be honoured by “building kindergartens, housing, factories, libraries and hospitals, homes for the disabled.”
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