From Russia with love, part 2 (bottoms up again)

an empty tomb
This is Lenin’s tomb, located along an outside wall of the Kremlin. Lenin’s body is usually on display here, but it had been temporarily removed in order to renew the treatments necessary for its preservation. In light of new facts that have come to light in recent years, Lenin is no longer revered by most Russians. Here’s what WayToRussia.Net has to say about Lenin’s tomb: “The Mausoleum was built in 1930 to put Lenin’s dead body inside (you know, like they did in Egypt). The body lies in there, but few people, tourists mostly, visit it and there are talks that Lenin will be buried soon. Also, there’s a story that under the mausoleum there’s a hidden underground railway, that’ll evacuate the body of Bolsheviks’ leader in case there’s a nuclear war or something.”






nameless
I will let him remain nameless because I don’t remember his name. But I will also let him remain nameless because he was hated and feared, and it may be better not to perpetuate his name. He was the head of the KGB. His statue stood in front of the KGB building until it was pulled down by the people of Moscow in their eagerness to exact vengeance on this symbol of their oppression. Rescued for the sake of history, it now stands with countless other stone relics of the communist era, gathered together into a monument graveyard. No longer revered, these lifeless objects of a people’s grief and anger, serve as reminders of a political experiment gone terribly wrong. Stalin has a particular place of dishonour in this graveyard, several representations of his grim figure standing in the middle of an artistic memorial of the holocaust he caused.






far more than a thousand words...






Russia
Early November in Russia...






us
Enjoying our first experience of the Russian countryside.