Lenin's Mausoleum, also known as Lenin's Tomb, situated on Red Square in the centre of Moscow, is a mausoleum that serves as the resting place of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. His preserved body has been on public display there since shortly after his death in 1924, with rare exceptions in wartime.[1]
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The Lenin's Mausoleum is featured in The Bodies Left Behind in 25 years after people.
The show explains the history of the mausoleum beginning when Lenin died in 1924, his body was given into the hands of skilled embalmers making his corpse to be preserved for decades in Moscow. It then shows the process, once a state secret rumoured, it involves repeated bathes in formaldehyde, ethanol, and methanol, and caretakers were always on duty to protect the body by scrubbing away bacteria, closing the openings in the flesh, and lightening blemishes. Dr. Howard Oliver explains that while his body is treated with makeup, the process of decay underneath the wax is still taking place. He then explains that the makeup slowed down the process of decay, but it will never stop.
Without caretakers, under the makeup the body of Vladimir Lenin rots away as usual like any kind of human decomposition.
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