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Soviet flags fly as Kyrgyz Pioneers unite. By Reuters. September 26, 2007 1:33 AM UTC Updated September 26, 2007 ... A visit to the monolithic former Lenin Museum capped the ceremony.

IDEAS 100 years after Lenin’s death, his curse still grips Russia The founder of the Soviet Union died in 1924, but his embalmed body remains on display in a country that doesn’t know how to ...

MOSCOW • Lenin and the czar were ready. There were no cops in sight, and the sunny weather had brought out a swarm of tourists on this early winter afternoon. Lenin impersonators thrive under ...

The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is seen on display in his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, Russia, on Wednesday, April 16, 1997.

After Vladimir Lenin died in January 1924, Moscow's Red Square became the site of a series of block-shaped structures made to house the embalmed corpse of the Soviet founder. 1 Lenin’s mausoleum ...

On Sunday, January 21, the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists, a Trotskyist youth organization in the former Soviet Union, held an event to commemorate the centenary since the death of Lenin at ...

Protesters rally in front of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on a central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011.