The Preserved Corpse Of Lenin

[@VonRyansExpress-v3r]

That's one corpse no-one should want to preserve . . .

[@FritzEwert516]

My best friend’s father went to Moscow University medical school with someone who eventually became part of team that supervised maintenance of the body. Story he told was in early 1980’s, his friend was sent into panic after a group of schoolchildren was ushered into mausoleum only to find his eyebrows had fallen off.

[@Templeborough]

Lenin was a lot more fun dead than he ever was alive. His impression of a live man in a wheel chair is a scream.

[@Coach_BigMac]

The original "weekend at Bernie's" 😂😂

[@raymond_sycamore]

LMAO!

[@honestlynate7922]

It would be cheaper just to make a cast version of him. Maybe wax or maybe just forget this guy like everyone else

[@MelbaBowen]

With all of the patching, resculpting,no organs, there really isn’t much left of him. They won’t be able to do all of that “preservation work“ indefinitely.

[@dlxmarks]

The Ship of Theseus paradox in human form.

[@andypandywalters]

Triggers broom comes to mind.....

[@joelspringman523]

He is in constant agony, forever. I can't imagine it.

[@Stevenimich]

I went to Moscow in 2017 and waited in a long line to see Lenin. Once inside, you couldn’t stand too long looking at his body as the guard would bark at you to keep moving. No photography allowed as well. His body looks like a wax figure (like a Madame Tassaud’s wax figure). He wasn’t a very tall person either. He looked really doll-like.

[@EnzoSaita]

Io sono andato in epoca gorbaciov ed eravamo solo turisti e per il buio di li dentro sono inciampato con il rischio di finire su quel coso.ma ripeto solo stranieri.non c’era un russo neanche sulla piazza rossa.

[@oklahomaisok]

Just from looking at the photo I thought it was probably a wax figure.

[@oceanhedonist265]

A friend of mine went to Moscow in the early 2000's. He wanted to go to the mausoleum, but it was closed. The tour guide said "it's Lenin's day off!" 😂

[@johno9507]

What's strange is Lenin's face looks healthier now after being dead for 100 years than he did before he died.

[@williamevans9426]

'Agreed!

[@maryfreebed9886]

It's apparently not uncommon for people to look better after good embalming than they did during their declining years.

[@williamevans9426]

@@maryfreebed9886 I think I'll be embalmed. 'Though I plan to be cremated, at least it will allow me 'to think' my death wasn't all bad!! 😂

[@archiviste600]

c'est comme le gros Roncalli (Jean XXIII), Jean Paul II, et on ne va pas tarder à voir arriver Montini adepte des maisons clauses pour les gens de son espèce.

[@keithmcwilliams7424]

Evacuated to Siberia not Serbia Serbia was occupied by the germans .

[@mathewaitken938]

I was waiting for someone to point that out. Lenin also lived in Gorky, not Gorka.

[@josephmessina3587]

The painting of Lenin's funeral at 3:03 has obviously changed over time, removing all the party elite and leaving only Stalin as a mourner.

[@geraldgriffin8220]

I still think that wheelchair picture indicates third stage syphilis...

[@jimjam51075]

Oh, come now. There is no way the soviets would have ever covered up such a thing.

[@13infbatt]

Untreated syphilis could explain modern leaders .

[@torcal47]

I visited Lenin's tomb. Visitors descend several flights of stairs into a frigid room where the body is. It was so cold I could not stay long. It appeared the body was frozen.

[@matthewfriday2979]

I did as well back in like 2003-04 and agree completely. It's a very strange experience; but that being said, if you get a chance to do so, it's worth visiting.

[@torcal47]

@ I was there in 1977. Things don't change in the frozen world.

[@Makeuplover2016]

❤d 6:54 x

[@sterlingdafydd5834]

First of all it is one staircase you go on down….secondly it is a moving line so you only stay in there for 30-45 seconds…. I know because I’ve actually visited the mausoleum several times

[@josephmessina3587]

I was there in JAN 1972 and was not allowed to linger. Back then, because I was an American, was allowed to go to the front of a long line that stretched around the Kremlin Wall.

[@billbright1755]

Animatronics. They could reanimate the corpse by using this technique. He could pop and say glad you all stopped by for a visit.

[@LillianCenteno-u3r]

lol. And freak out all the visitors. Nice ...

[@chrysopylaedesign]

The ultimate of worshipping false icons.

[@jonmicknono7138]

He was my favorite Beatle…..!

[@13infbatt]

Comment of the day .

[@lisaannem6358]

🤦‍♀️

[@mathewaitken938]

Oh well played. Wasn’t it Mark Chapman that shot him? I’m confused because the narrator said it was Fanny Kaplan.

[@MLou812]

I remember visiting the USSR back in 1969 as a 13 year old student and seeing Lenin’s tomb. You had to keep completely silent and continuously moving through. No pictures allowed. I’m actually surprised he is still there.

[@tonyrollman3991]

3 percent rich and everyone else got nothing but vodka

[@mathewaitken938]

Vodka was the great leveller (Level with the ground), and that’s what communism was all about. I’m equally as miserable and blind drunk as the guy next door.

[@jerryrohr5096]

Lenin’s body is incorruptible. Of course. He is worshiped as their god, after all.

[@cruickshankoutdoors7575]

It needs to be said that Lenin vehemently opposed Stalin becoming the leader of the Soviet Union after his death. He knew there was a split forming. He actively worked toward trying to force Stalin out knowing death was coming soon.

[@trazalcatraz]

It needs to be said that both were mass murderers and their teachings killed millions of people.

[@mathewaitken938]

Yes, he left it a bit late and bungled his excoriation of Stalin. He pissed off the rest of the Politburo when he pointed out all of their flaws in his letter recommending Stalins removal. It was something they would rather keep private rather than broadcasting their own shortcomings alongside Stalin. It gave Stalin the time and opportunity to ally himself temporarily with Kamenev and Zinoviev, thus outfoxing Trotsky who Lenin leaned towards in succeeding him as leader.

[@KimberlyPatton-x1n]

And to think ..he was only 53.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

There was video showing the re-embalming process and the people who were performing the embalming none of them were wearing gloves.

[@clockout5265]

This is ridiculous. $200k on a guy who led his people into mediocrity and poverty? Sounds like his politics. A total waste.

[@MrLutazioCatulo]

Tu hai scritto una cosa ridicola. Lenin ha fatto uscire il popolo russo dal medioevo, dalla schiavitù in cui versavano milioni di contadini. Studia.

[@Noahrama]

$200K is probably what it costs. Nobody cares what you think about Lenin, we already know... zzz

[@BojanBojovic]

Communism in the 20th century was a failed experiment, but it would be naive to look at it as being only a bad thing.

[@wendellcibulka366]

Absolutely fight. His ideas killed many millions and impoverished the rest. Go to hell, Mr. Lenin.

[@LOZi175]

Crazy there’s governments and politicians who still want to follow a manifesto from 1848. 😂

[@sandymwest1606]

It's called Stupidity

[@LOZi175]

@ Crazy!

[@nigellacey559]

Lenin can get stuffed...oh

[@dicw98439]

Ba Dum, TISS!

[@robertmead9234]

😅😅😅

[@mikeyshouseofbrakes8463]

The U.S. has been going through a similar situation the past four years.......

[@SWExplore]

Agreed! One of the worst president in living history and a one-term loser since his first day in office.

[@andrewrivera4029]

Biden is gonna take Jimmy carters place as the living corpse.

[@lunhil12]

Being replaced by a monkey from Queens.

[@Ziegfried82]

Please don't tell me they are going to put that shambling corpse on display in a glass case.

[@mikedee8876]

I have seen a worm colony on youtube, contained in a fish tank, and during one feeding, a large Pumpkin was placed on top of the bowl, and over a week or so, an hourly time-lapse was taken...it was so interesting how they devoured it.....if that was done with Lenin, the children of Russia might learn something about farming methods, and soil building....something useful...

[@sandymwest1606]

Hey, do Eva Peron next. That was really a great body preservation story and freaky too.

[@keijulkyl]

Cuba sends their love as they stand in perpetual food lines, comrade.

[@yottabyte4760]

Cuba has much better healthcare outcomes than the US. Higher life expectancy.

[@clivebaxter6354]

Saw him in 1970, looked like a wax work

[@rridderbusch518]

I saw Lenin in 1983. There's *no way* it wasn't all wax. Glad I went there, though!

[@TerryB751]

The idea of placing him in a grave probably just symbolizes the death of the Soviet Union to people there.

[@adamwiggins9865]

But is he still edible?

[@Jim.Thunda]

And PooTin is just as crazy. It's always the craziest Russian's that become leaders.

[@LillianCenteno-u3r]

We have had a few of those crazies here in the US. Take a look at our current specimen. Twenty-three days and counting for his departure. Thank God!

[@buffdelcampo]

@@LillianCenteno-u3r In the US we see a departure of bad leadership. Those poor Russians still have Lenin and a leader that likely worships the guy.

[@DannStephen]

I have been in the Mausoleum a couple of times, it is interesting to see his body, of what remains of it. However it is also a weird experience. If you are in Moscow, it is worth going to see this, for the historical side if nothing else. You should do a video on Stalin's death, time in the Mausoleum and later burial, behind the Mausoleum. As for Trotsky, his grave in Mexico city is interesting mainly because it is part of the museum in the house he was murdered in. Standing in that specific room is an uncomfortable experience.

[@user-mp5ww2bt7q]

Disgrace! Against the will of his family? Put the man to rest!

[@twalatka]

Absolutely horrific.

[@michaelpena5986]

Pic of Stalin with Lenin is a fake Stalin created. Poor Soviet people didn't have a clue how bad the next leader would be.😢

[@SWExplore]

What a sick and demented regime was Russia then, and is still to this day. I feel compassion for the Good Russian people who continue to be duped by power-hungry dictators over the ages. If things don't change, another collapse like in 1991 is inevitable.

[@judd442009]

53 years old when he died? Had Lenin died this year, his death would have been explained as from an accidental fall from a tall building.

[@DeputatKaktus]

The biggest and maybe sickest „joke“ in all of this is: Lenin, his wife and his family never wanted all of this. In fact, Lenin himself is said to have wanted a simple funeral, with no frills and a simple casket. But that decision was out of their hands very quickly and Stalin decided that a huge monument with his preserved body in it was exactly the thing that should exist. The whole thing is pretty bizarre when you think about it. And the people initially working on Lenin’s body lived in constant fear of imprisonment or execution if anything was to go wrong with the preservation of the body. Despite them having to basically develop all of their cosmetic procedures and techniques as they went along because this had never been done on a scale like this.

[@ramon6890]

You typed all that just to prove you didn't watch the full video. She said all that at the very end lol

[@DeputatKaktus]

@ Oh I did watch the video all the way through. And my post does contain some additional information. So chill 😊

[@ramon6890]

@DeputatKaktus everyone is chill lol you chill the only new addition you added was their doctors being scared shítless. At least this reply seems real, you initial comment seemed a little ai-ey

[@Magnetron33]

or at least not since thew Pharohs

[@joewheelmonger6887]

So...what's the difference between this and taxidermy?

[@9Tailsfan]

The difference between this and Taxidermy is that you take the hyde or shell of the animal and mount it on a dummy. Taxidermists don't use the internal organs or skeletons. Lenin's corpse doesn't have the internal organs but it still has the skeleton.

[@johne.8939]

A new definition of “rest in peace”…….

[@zanenobbs352]

Perhaps they could 3D print Lenin in resin? It would be lighter and easier to move around.

[@BobbyH-ts3je]

His three children are seldom mentioned: Bed, Table, and Damask...

[@marcusdion8100]

Lenin died with sypfilis this is the real reason

[@williamevans9426]

[5.40] Does this mean that a mixture of vinegar and vodka would keep my own wrinkles at bay - I am still alive, btw?! 😄 It's also mentioned here that 'parts of Lenin's face' have been 'resculpted'. Does this mean that the face now on display is, in fact, a full mask rather than actual patched preserved tissue (especially as the cheeks appear far more plump than they seem in photographs taken shortly before Lenin's death)?

[@krle7970]

All this, against his wishes

[@BrokenMedic]

Good

[@BrokenMedic]

Maybe to harsh?

[@EattheApple666]

Looks a little like Bill Burr.

[@realLsf]

So Lenin is a kind of Ship of Theseus, a para-consistent logical corpse. Just when are the remains of Lenin no longer considered to be Lenin?

[@ericdoe2318]

I am the walrus

[@kathleen5678]

First video of Lenin. Thank you for the history.

[@karlmadsen3179]

I didn't even know be was ill.

[@forrealforreal7203]

Wax holds up quite well for decades if under the right conditions...

[@a68riz]

It might be easier for everyone, If madam tusauds were to re-create him in wax. Instead of just a bit at a time as was clearly done.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Were his eyeballs saved elsewhere?

[@TheScottbb1]

‘Where lemins bodies was displayesed’ am I hearing things right? At 3:30? What happened there lol

[@C.Hughes-Lloyd]

She makes a lot of mistakes in her videos. Mispronounced words and erroneous historical 'facts'.🤦

[@tinasylvester9387]

@C.Hughes-Lloydat least it’s an actual person and not AI though right? I prefer a real person read it out personally, with natural mistakes and accents.

[@C.Hughes-Lloyd]

@tinasylvester9387 It's a real person and she shouldn't be making any mistakes.

[@binslick1000]

Why preserve the body of a bloodthirsty criminal who starved and slaughtered millions. Society is twisted.

[@arte4arte]

That was Stalin...Lenin died early on in the Soviet era...

[@mathewaitken938]

@@arte4arteyeah, I wonder what would have happened if Stalin didn’t succeed Lenin. I think he was preserved too and laid out alongside him in the mausoleum until after Khrushchev denounced Stalin at the 20th party congress in (I think) 1956. I believe they buried his remains in the Kremlin’s grounds.

[@arte4arte]

@@mathewaitken938 Stalin was an opportunistic psychotic gangsta....he was a bully who strong-armed his way into power....Lenin was an idealistic political activist...how he would have fared had he kept is health will be forever a mystery...

[@terrancenorris9992]

In the year 2011, I visited the mausoleum of Lenin twice. I wanted to get a good look at the man who had the Tsar and his family murdered. The Royal Family has been Sainted by the Russian Orthodox Church and Icons exist of them, of which I own one of the Icons set in gold.

[@KD2HJP]

I saw his corpse in July 1989 in person in Moscow. I was 17. The entire summer was a mind altering experience of my life to this day nearly 36 years later Unbelievable trajectory

[@Acronym6197]

It's just his plasticized head and hands. Think of the scarecrow from The Wizard of OZ for the rest of his body.

[@kingrama2727]

Lenin never wanted Stalin to take over because he knew Stalin was a monster. Also, from what I’ve read after 100 years of restoration and touch ups there’s only about 20% of “him” actually left.

[@Marshallgill]

This is the silliest of claims. Yes, he knew that Stalin was a monster because he himself was also one! He didn't make Stalin his deputy because he hated how vicious Stalin was but because he appreciated it.

[@kingrama2727]

@ this isn’t a “silly” claim as it’s the truth. Stalin wasn’t his deputy and wasn’t all that close to Lenin. You may want to delete your comment and pick up a few books on the subject.

[@Marshallgill]

@@kingrama2727 It is an absurd defense of Lenin. He was a murderous monster himself.

[@kingrama2727]

@ defense of Lenin.. you have zero reading comprehension skills. Good grief dude

[@C.Hughes-Lloyd]

Fgs, get educated Lenin himself was a monster: Lenin massacred more than 1 million people for political or religious reasons, murdered up to 700,000 in the genocide of the Cossacks, more than 15,000 peasants in the Tambov rebellion, over 3,000 sailors and civilians in the Kronstadt rebellion, thousands of workers who dared to strike or could not work, almost 2 million who died in the Gulag concentration camps and upwards of 8 million from famine and disease.

[@bobcaygeon975]

I think its a wax figure and the Ruskies have been playing us.

[@dougww1ectebow]

This is just disgusting.

[@veritas3179]

Disgusting. This Lenin was a monster.

[@Lando_P1]

I can’t wait for Zelenskyy to rule Moscow.

[@earth2006]

A lot of the films you see on Lennon are not Lennon, they are actors.

[@ericeric363]

What’s the point of having Lenin’s body on public display?

[@9Tailsfan]

Political propaganda most likely.

[@randyscrafts8575]

Didn't know this.

[@heep34987yt]

Artificial skin patches… ie: wax.

[@CHAOTICREATIONS]

I was very disappointed in this video. A lot of the information was inaccurate and the pronunciations were poor. Simply showing pictures of paintings of Lenin doesn't do the trick. One example of incorrect detail was when the narrator suggested they use chloroform to help sustain the body and that would be incorrect The word she was trying to find is formaldehyde. Very disappointing video

[@brucediamond8570]

I worked in Siberia in 94 n 95 I saw in red square in a glass coffin he was dead 75 years look like he was dead 3 days

[@mikefitzpatrick1213]

Pickle juice, that's how they do.

[@earth6161]

What an utter waste of time and money thats not him its a doll bet his soul cant rest if he had one

[@mikeh2613]

Lenin is alive and well in 10 Downing Street

[@No_Way_NO_WAY]

Not sure if it would be just better to plastinate a body to preserve it. It has been done for exhibitions. Body Worlds ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Worlds ) uses this technique to provide insights for non medical ppl into the body with bodies and organs donated by ppl before their death. If you skip the dissection bit, you could conservate a body with this technique basically making it a plastic sculpture made from resin and the cells of your body minus the water.

[@gatewaymofreight]

taxidermy at its finest.

[@sneakerfreak2002]

53???

[@Beautifultruthofficial]

Evil does everything to survive.

[@edvinnelius8844]

They throw that thing out

[@Magnetron33]

Still smells better than trump

[@Sanseverese86]

Un criminale che ha uccisi lo zar senza risparmiare i bambini. Non doveva essere adorato come in eroe

[@13infbatt]

Still looks better than Simon Cowell .

[@lornainlondon4527]

SERBIA❓REALLY….⁉️⁉️

[@AethosPallisades]

It’s a circus viewing.

[@jb7287]

🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢 Get over it already !! GROSS

[@MiliaPierina]

Anche Putin vorrà lo stesso trattamento

[@plakor6133]

Yuk.

[@jessekauffman3336]

The Soviet Union fell by isn’t he buried yet

[@C.Hughes-Lloyd]

Is English your first language?

[@-FALKOR]

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[@BCaldwell]

👎

[@catherinelee3298]

Gross

[@LoriVanAuwelaer]

Hey y'all 😮

[@sergiowerson724]

O diabo mandou empalhar.