The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is seen on display in his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, Russia, on Wednesday, April 16, 1997.

The concluding days of Moscow's 22nd Party Congress were surrounded by a strange air of magic and the supernatural. The long list of speakers ritually cursing Stalin's memory was joined by ...

COMMUNISTS (See Cover) Iconoclasts always end up needing more icons than anyone else. Thus the familiar, revered image is seen everywhere in Russia—framed in classrooms and pasted on peeling ...

11 A 1958 photo shows the names Lenin and Stalin at the entrance to the Red Square mausoleum. In 1961, amid “de-Stalinization” and the denouncement of the mass killings under Stalin, his body ...

MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. Removing Vladimir Lenin’s body from Red Square’s mausoleum is not on the agenda, and there are no plans to do so, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS.

This is Halloween.Today’s Highlight in History:On Oct. 31, 1961, the body of Josef Stalin was removed from Lenin’s Tomb as part of the Soviet Union’s “de-Stalinization” drive.

I knew Hitler all too well and that Putin is a Hitler wannabe,” Stalin said, with an air of disgust. He twirled what was left of his once-bushy mustache. Lenin nodded slowly.

Amid those concerns, Josef Stalin told a Politburo meeting of a proposal by “some comrades” to preserve Lenin’s body for centuries, according to a history by Russian news agency Tass.

From the outside, the mausoleum still looks impeccable, its brown marble and granite façade polished to a gleaming shine. But today Vladimir Lenin’s tomb is a site of only passing interest ...

The cult of “Lenin After Lenin” may have worked against the Soviet Union ... The Red Square mausoleum where his embalmed corpse lies in an open sarcophagus is no ... But Stalin, once a ...