{"id":34050,"date":"2012-06-10T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2012-06-10T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T16:18:20","slug":"russia-to-bury-lenin%e2%80%99s-embalmed-body-after-88-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2012\/06\/10\/russia-to-bury-lenin%e2%80%99s-embalmed-body-after-88-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to bury Lenin\u2019s embalmed body after 88 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Moscow, June 10 (ANI): Russia will be burying the body of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin after 88 years.<br \/>\nThe revolutionary\u2019s body is still on public display in a mausoleum on Moscow\u2019s Red Square more than two decades after the break-up of the former USSR.<br \/>\nCulture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said it was \u2018absurd\u2019 that Lenin had not been laid to rest 88 years after his death, the Daily Mail reports.<br \/>\nCalling for his burial in a normal grave, as Lenin himself had requested, Medinsky said: \u201cMaybe something would change for the better in our lives then.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Bolshevik leader\u2019s remains were embalmed on Stalin\u2019s orders when he died aged 53 in 1924 and was kept on public display in Moscow all these years except for the period of the Second World War.<br \/>\nPutin has repeatedly postponed a decision on burial, arguing that Lenin remained an icon for many elderly Russians.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/russia-to-bury-lenins-embalmed-body-after-88-years\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/russia-to-bury-lenins-embalmed-body-after-88-years\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, June 10 (ANI): Russia will be burying the body of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin after 88 years. The revolutionary\u2019s body is still on public display in a mausoleum on Moscow\u2019s Red Square more than two decades after the break-up of the former USSR. Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said it was \u2018absurd\u2019 that Lenin [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,996],"class_list":["post-34050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}