BBC News - Bury Lenin, say Russians in online poll

File picture of Vladimir Lenin's body inside his mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow
Lenin's embalmed body has been on public display since his death in 1924

An online poll organised by Russia's ruling party suggests there is strong support for burying Lenin's body.

Of more than 250,000 people who have voted in the poll, two-thirds so far say Lenin should now be buried.

The revolutionary leader's embalmed body has been on display in a mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow since his death in 1924.

The debate about what to with his body resurfaces with every anniversary of his death - on 21 January 1924. [...]

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