Chris Doss wrote:
I wish they would follow his wishes. he wanted to be buried or cremated, I forget which. I doubt that anyone wants to be put on permanent display... jd ---
It's a political decision. It was outrage a lot of conservatives (in the Russian sense of the word). Most people think he should be buried and the mausoleum turned into a museum.
Wasn't putting Stalin into the mausoleum alongside Lenin the former's decision? He was in there a few years (now he's about 20 meters away).
Years ago (1960s), we used to joke that socialism would begin coming to the USSR when Lenin was buried and Stalin put in a tomb on display. In the 1950s, we just argued that Lenin should be buried/cremated.
Larry Shute
