Vladimir Lenin

Chavez to be embalmed 'like Lenin' and laid in museum

9 Mar 2013

Venezuelans flocked to see president Hugo Chavez lying in state, as his political heir revealed he would be embalmed "like Lenin" and displayed in the barracks where he plotted a failed coup.

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Mongolia says goodbye to Lenin and hello to dinosaurs

29 Jan 2013

Once he bestrode his world, lending his name to more museums, streets, monuments and public institutions than any other 20th-century figure. But in the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator at least, it...

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Poll finds support for moving Vladimir Lenin's body out of Red Square

18 Jan 2013

Just one in four Russians thinks the body of Vladimir Lenin should remain ensconced in its dark mausoleum on Red Square, according to a poll.

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Thousands of books no longer banned in Turkey as objection deadline passes

7 Jan 2013

From communist works to a comic book, thousands of titles banned by Turkey over the decades have been taken off the restricted list as part of a government reform.

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