LENIN’S BODY
NOW DECOMPOSING. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright]. BERLIN, August 2. , Experts now admit' that the embalming of Nicolai Lenin’s body which supposedly was to have preserved it for all eternity, was inferior in character with the result that there is nothing now that can stay the proceeds of its dissolution which is proceeding rapidly. I The remains will therefore, be cremated, and the ashes will be kept in the mausoleum of the Kremlin, where the display of the body in its glass coffin had much to intensify the spread of Leninism in a population like'Russia’s. The news of the fact that Lenin’s body was decomposing will have an '•enormous effect upon peasants throughout the country, and it may presage the end of Lenin’s work.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1930, Page 6
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126LENIN’S BODY Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1930, Page 6
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