The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has called for Vladimir Lenin’s body be taken out of its Moscow mausoleum and properly buried. This would be a “reasonable and humane” step, he said.
“The issue of Lenin’s burial must be resolved by Russian President Vladimir Putin, of course, but I am personally convinced that we should stop staring at a corpse,” Kadyrov wrote in his Telegram channel.
“The time for the head of the revolution’s burial is long overdue. This will be reasonable and humane,” Kadyrov wrote, adding that the maintenance of the embalmed body costs a lot, but brings no practical result, apart from “a casket with a dead man in it in Russia’s very heart on Red Square.”
He added that Russian authorities should also organize the burial of the head of Haji Murad – a prominent Islamist rebel who fought against the Russian Empire in the early 19th century and whose head is kept in a St. Petersburg museum to this day, the RT reported.
