The body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin should stay in its mausoleum on Red Square in
Moscow, so long as Russians retain personal memories of the Soviet period, President
Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
Asked at his annual press conference whether the embalmed body of the first Soviet leader, who died in 1924, should be removed, Putin said his position had not changed but also criticised the way Lenin set up the USSR.
Liberals regularly raise the question of removing Lenin's body for burial and more than 60 percent of Russians support this according to a 2017 survey by VTsIOM state pollster.