Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lenin's embalmed corpse is one of the biggest attractions in Moscow, drawing a mix of tourists and communists to his tomb. But ...

Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A century ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

The flag of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic flutters behind a statue Vladimir Lenin in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk. Getty Images Since the fall of communism in 1989, I’ve ...

On the centennial of Russia's revolution and Vladimir Lenin's rise to power, the majority of Russians want him buried, state and independent polls show. Lenin's body lays embalmed at the gates of the ...

MOSCOW -- When the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s birth rolled around in 1970, the Soviet Union pulled out all the stops to mark the occasion. Commemorative stamps were printed; coins were ...

Vladimir Lenin’s body is nearly 146 years old, but it doesn’t look a day over 53. Russian scientists have kept the Soviet leader, whose embalmed body is on display in a mausoleum in Moscow’s Red ...

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