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Red Square 53

            The tomb of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet state. Lenin died of a stroke in 1924. It was his request that he be buried back in his hometown next to his mother, but the Soviet government believed that he belonged to the State and should be properly honored. Lenin's body was preserved, and placed in the current tomb in 1930. The body is on display to the public, and long lines still form up for the opportunity to tour the tomb and see Lenin's body.

Initially, the body of Joseph Stalin was placed alongside Lenin's in the tomb, following his death from a stroke in March, 1953. After Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev came to power as First Secretary of the Communist Party. Part of his agenda was to try to normalize relations with the outside world and re-instate Lenin's principle of a limited co-existence between communism and capitalism, a policy rejected by Stalin upon his coming to power on the death of Lenin. As part of this agenda, referred to as Khrushchev's Thaw, Khrushchev sought to renounce and redress many of the excesses of Stalin's reign. In the ultimate expression of that effort, he had Stalin's body removed from the tomb in 1961 and buried nearby in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

There is a balcony atop the tomb at the level of the first row of red stone above the black stone. It is from this balcony that Soviet officials  and dignitaries would review the massive Victory Day parades of the Soviet Union's military might through Red Square during the Cold War. The parades continue, but the balcony is no longer used as a reviewing stand.

Taken on: July 15, 2015

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Russia

Moscow

Vladimir Lenin

Lenin's Tomb

Joseph Stalin

Nikita Khrushchev

Khrushchev's Thaw

Kremlin Wall Necropolis

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