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In 1924, the Bolsheviks decided that Lenin had no right to leave this the mortal world is like ordinary mortals. Not only Lenin’s business, but also his body had to live forever. The life of Lenin’s body turned out to be eventful: she traveled and experienced many assassination attempts.
Mausoleum
6 days after the death of Lenin on Red Square was the first wooden mausoleum was erected, where the leader’s body was placed. In the spring, a second wooden mausoleum was built, which stood until 1930, when he was replaced by a reinforced concrete structure, lined with granite and finished with labradorite, marble and raspberry quartzite. IN this building was supposed to be the body of Lenin and was supposed to to rest forever and ever. But life brought its plans into these plans. adjustments.
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1941 Secret Decision
The first months of 1941 were for the Red Army catastrophic. Defended individual villages and towns, and at the same time whole cities surrendered without a fight. Fought before the last bullet fearless garrisons and at the same time fell into captive whole shelves. The front was heading east. In this setting there was a decision was made to evacuate the body of Lenin. The decision was secret. Revealing it could cause unwanted talk. Masses could take this as an assumption by the country’s leadership of the possibility of surrender capital to the enemy. Today we know that such an option was allowed, but for the people it was “We won’t surrender Moscow!”
Special train
The place of evacuation was chosen Tyumen. At the end of June in the setting In the strictest secrecy, the body was immersed in a special train. Locomotive pulled three cars. The two were traveling security, engineers, doctors, attendants, in the third – the body, the guard and the commandant The mausoleum. Additional shock absorbers were installed on the car, inside – equipment that creates a special microclimate.
The composition everywhere was a green light. In 12 days, there were only three stop. The last section (Sverdlovsk-Tyumen) was on all of its cordoned off by police and troops. July 10 special train arrived in Tyumen. July 22, Moscow underwent the first massive the first bombs fell on the air raid and on the city.
Mausoleum in evacuation
Precious sarcophagus placed in the building of Tyumen Agricultural College. Located on the second floor audience number 15 and became the Mausoleum in the evacuation. Here is the body of Lenin was almost until the very end of the war. Order about him the return was signed by the Kremlin commandant general N. Spiridonov March 29, 1945. In the same setting top-secret sarcophagus was transported back to Moscow. For everything people almost four-year absence of the body of Lenin in the Mausoleum remained a mystery.
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But travel is not the most significant event that befell body of Lenin. For more than 90 years of history, it is not only traveled, but also repeatedly attacked. If for Lenin’s body alone was an object of deification and worship, then for others are an object of hatred.
Mummy Attempts
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The first attempt on the body of Lenin dates back to March 1934. A worker of one of the Moscow state farms Mitrofan Nikitin fired to the sarcophagus from a pistol. While trying to detain Nikitin shot himself. When he was found a letter in which Mitrofan explained his act as a protest against existing Bolshevik orders.
The second “assassination attempt” was committed in November 1957. Someone Romanov, a resident of the capital without specific occupations threw into the sarcophagus ink bottle.
In March 1959, one of the visitors passing by the sarcophagus threw a hammer at him. Glass shattered, the “object” is not Suffered.
In July 1960, Minibaev, who arrived from Frunze, jumped over the barrier and a blow of the foot managed to break the glass of the sarcophagus. Shards of glass damaged the mummy. At the investigation, Minibaev admitted that his idea hatched from 1949 and flew to Moscow specifically for her implementation. Stones were thrown into the sarcophagus in 1961 and in 1962, and in 1967 in relation to the Mausoleum the first terrorist act.
The attacks
A resident of Kaunas (Lithuania) Krysanov at the entrance to the Mausoleum blew up explosive belt. Most likely, Krysanov intended commit an act inside, and the explosion in front of the Mausoleum was unintentional. In addition to the terrorist, several more people died. After the incident visitors began to oblige to hand over packages and bags to the camera storage, and the precious body was covered with bulletproof glass. However, attempts to kill the immortal leader did not stop.
In September 1973, one of the visitors passing by sarcophagus, detonated an explosive device mounted on the body. Besides the perishing couple was a nearby couple. Name special services failed to establish a terrorist.
The last incident occurred on January 19, 2014, when several young people shouting “Get up and leave!” began to sprinkle the Mausoleum with holy water.
What to do with the body?
The question of the fate of Lenin’s body has been raised repeatedly. There is how supporters to bury the body of Lenin, and opponents, but the latter every year it’s getting smaller. Gradually go to another world people brought up on the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, their place is a generation for which Lenin and the socialist past of Russia are just a page of history, and no more. When will such people the vast majority, the body of the founder of the world’s first state workers and peasants will be quietly, without a pump, interred in accordance with Orthodox traditions.
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