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St. Petersburg Governor Calls for Burial of Lenin’s Body
Created: 17.10.2005 17:37 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:37 MSK
MosNews
Governor of  St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko has called for Vladimir Lenin’s body to be removed from its Red Square mausoleum and buried.
Matvienko was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying on Monday it was “necessary” to bury Lenin’s body. “In my view, it’s completely obvious,” she said, adding, however, that the issue should be handled “delicately and carefully.”
Lenin, the Communist icon, died in 1924 and has been mummified and put on public display in the center of Moscow. The burial of his body has been disputed since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, was unable to remove Lenin’s body from the mausoleum due to strong communist opposition forces but he ordered the removal of the guard of honor from its post.
At the end of September Putin’s envoy to the Central Federal District, Georgy Poltavchenko, said Lenin’s body should be removed from its granite tomb on Red Square and buried in a cemetery along with the remains of other Bolshevik dignitaries. He added he was voicing his private opinion on the matter and did not elaborate.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier he was against burying Lenin’s body.
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