Not a Chance Pal

This Kremlin inside makes a logical point that won't see the light of day any time soon:

Russians should move the embalmed body of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin from Moscow's Red Square and bury him as an act of closure on Russia's turbulent past, a Kremlin insider said on Wednesday....

...."We have only just moved away from revolutions, from turbulent political battles, the country wants to live normally, to work, to be rich," Vladimir Kozhin, one of the Kremlin's top administrators in charge of its property portfolio including Red Square, told the official daily, Rossiskaya Gazeta.

..."Of course, having this necropolis at the centre of the city is nonsense," Kozhin said, adding he wanted a national referendum on whether Lenin should be moved and buried.

Of course, that's not going to happen any time soon, because one Vladimir Putin likes the concept of honoring Lenin in this manner. And since Putin wants to hold on to power as long as possible, that's not going to happen.

Incidentally, I went to the Lenin Mausoleum when I was in Russia in 1997. And it's a pretty odd site to see the body of a guy who died 73 years before being guard by soldiers with Kalashnikovs...