>Lenin never wanted a mausoleum. Before he died in 1924, he explicitly stated he wanted to be buried in the ground next to his mother in St. Petersburg. His widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, begged the Communist Party to honor his wishes. They completely ignored her.>When Lenin died, millions of mourning citizens flooded Moscow in the freezing winter. The state built a quick wooden shack to house his body so the crowds could pass through. The bitterly cold weather naturally kept him preserved for weeks. Seeing how powerfully the public reacted, Stalin who was aggressively scheming to take absolute control of the party realized something crucial: dead men can't argue with you. If Stalin buried Lenin, Lenin was just a dead politician. But if Stalin immortalized Lenin's body, he could turn Lenin into a secular, communist "saint." By positioning himself as the chief high priest of this new religion, Stalin could claim that anyone who opposed him was committing heresy against the immortal spirit of Lenin.LMAO
>>537679359Good. :)
>>537679359It's still crazy anyone could see lenin from that close.
>>537679359Nietzsche was right
>>537679677about what?
>>537679677Wrong
>>537679359ignoring the wishes of the individual in favor of the states judgement, yes very communist indeed
>>537679359They did it so everyone would know he was bald for a century.
>>537679359they mummified him in bronze
>>537679954Would have looked much cooler with a Belter shrug. :p
>>537679790>>537679808The state becoming the new idol. "It would fain surround itself with actors of the new virtue! The monster would fain bask in the sunshine of good consciences! Everything will it give you, if ye worship it, the new idol: thus it buyeth the lustre of your virtue, and the glance of your proud eyes""Whether they clearly know it or not, they certainly act as if their motto were: let the dead bury the living.""For they do not want to see new greatness emerge: their means of defense is to say, 'Look, greatness is already there!'... Monumental history is the masquerade in which their hatred of the great and the powerful of their own time passes itself off as satiated admiration for the great and the powerful of past times."
>>537679359>But if Stalin immortalized Lenin's body, he could turn Lenin into a secular, communist "saint.Even in death he was a useful idiotS
>>537679790Basically everything.
>>537679359that thing is fake as shitsame the marcos mausoleum. its either wood, plastic, wax or whatever crap! i been there.
>>537679359pic rel
>>537679954They have a statue of him in seattle, dumb shithole city
>>537679359Was he a jew?
>>537682917would be a real shame if that commie wankers statue gets defaced and vandalized...dont do that ok!!!!
>>537682972yes his grandfather israel something was forced to convert to orthodoxy by tsar and the revolution was his personal vendetta for living like a rat in the hiding
>>537683074Fucking jews dude
>>537683050I’m surprised it hasn’t been blown up. Very surprised actually
>>537679359>you either die a hero interred in the kremlin wall>or live long enough to become a traitor put against the kremlin wall and shot
>>537682917I used to live by this in Fremont back in 2011 when it was still there. It's gone now though.
>>537683318The Fremont neighborhood is where all the artsy Bohemian types in Seattle live. I didn't know that moving there. They did dress him up for holidays though, that was kinda funny seeing him in a Santa hat and shit.
>>537683740>It's gone now though.Iirc it's in a bar freezer in Las Vegas now
>>537682917>interdasting building in the back
