The Lenin dilemma: Rest in peace, or in public
"For eight decades, he has been lying in state on public display, a cadaver in a succession of dark suits, encased in a glass box beside a walkway in the basement of his granite mausoleum. Many who revere him say he is at peace, the leader in repose beneath the lights. Others think he just looks wan and macabre.
Time has been unkind to Lenin, whose remains in Red Square are said to sprout occasional fungi and whose ideology and party fell to ruins."
