Russia

Is it still appropriate that the father of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, is buried in a mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow, 100 years after the father of the revolution died? According to the Russian state news agency, this issue still divides the country’s population. As early as two decades ago, the British newspaper The Independent reported on a Russian popular mood suggesting that the late revolutionary did not bring back positive memories and that it might be time to give him a permanent resting place. According to Tass, 30 percent of Russians surveyed said they thought it was high time to bury Lenin in a cemetery as soon as possible. 33 percent answered that it is appropriate to let Lenin stay in Red Square. 27 percent answered that he should be buried as soon as the generation that thinks anything about him at all is gone. /ritzau/