Do you know? Less than 10 percent of Lenin's body is currently preserved in the Kremlin, but the annual maintenance cost is as high as one million. So why would Putin spend so much money every year to maintain it rather than bury Lenin's body? Where do these maintenance costs come from?
In 1917, with the outbreak of the February Revolution in Russia, the Romanov dynasty was also completely overthrown into history, and all parties in Russia, including the Soviet government, were established, and at this time Lenin in Europe also saw this opportunity to choose to return to China, and quickly became the core figure of the Revolutionary Movement in the Soviet Union after returning home, and issued the April Theses, pointing out that the core direction of the Russian revolution was to change from the bourgeoisie to a socialist country led by the proletariat. On November 7 of the same year, the October Revolution led by Lenin officially began, and with the sound of the cannons of the Aurora, soldiers under Lenin's leadership occupied the Winter Palace, and the world's first socialist government was established.
However, the revolution did not happen overnight, and in the course of Lenin's leadership of the overthrow of Tsarist rule toward socialism, the forces opposed him orchestrated a number of assassinations, the most serious of which was the 1922 speech assassination, which indirectly led to Lenin's death. Lenin was interacting with the masses, and the Assassins of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party in the audience saw the opportunity and raised their hands to shoot him three times in a row. Two of these bullets hit Lenin directly in the left shoulder and neck, and the third shot killed a woman who was talking to Lenin.
Lenin was shot in the shoulder and neck and passed out immediately, and the onlookers immediately rushed him to the hospital. It was only because of the backward medical conditions at that time, coupled with the special position of the neck bullet close to the spine, that people could only let it stay in Lenin's body temporarily. After this, a German doctor volunteered to help Lenin with the operation and removed the bullet. Unfortunately, this assassination operation made Lenin's physical condition much worse than before, and not long after the operation, Lenin was even more unfortunate to suffer from a stroke, looking at his deteriorating body, Lenin knew that time was short, and after writing the work instructions to the next General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Comrade Lenin died on January 21, 1924, at the age of 53.
Just after Lenin's death, the Soviet Union was grieving as a nation, and according to statistics, about 900,000 people attended Lenin's memorial service. With Lenin's death, the leaders of the Soviet Union met to commemorate Lenin's heroic deeds and the spiritual beliefs of the Soviet people. It was decided by the authorities to dispose of Lenin's body and preserve him permanently for future visits by the Soviet people.
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After Lenin's death, since the official decision was made to preserve his body permanently, why is there only 10% of the specially treated body left today?
At that time, after making the decision, the Soviet authorities immediately sent relevant medical experts to embalm Lenin's body, and spent a huge amount of money to create a crystal coffin for Lenin, ensuring that the storage temperature inside the coffin was always around 16 degrees, and also sent a special team to be responsible for the maintenance of Lenin's body and coffin, which was placed in Moscow's Red Square and became the spiritual sustenance of the Soviet people.
Although the medical conditions were not developed at that time, Lenin died in the winter, and after being treated by relevant experts and embalming teams, most of Lenin's body was preserved. However, in the later maintenance, because the anti-corrosion technology at that time was not mature and perfect, lenin's body often had subtle corruption, and in order to prevent the spread of these corrupt phenomena, the relevant staff had to remove the corrupt part, clean the rest with chemical reagents to prevent the spread, and finally fill it with artificial silicone to ensure the integrity of Lenin's remains.
Originally carefully cared for by the expert group and sampled every five years, Lenin's body will never fall to the end of only 10% today. With the outbreak of World War II, the Soviet Union became the battlefield of German invasion, and for a while the artillery fire was continuous, because of the impact of the war, many factories in the Soviet Union at that time entered a state of shutdown. With the shortage of personnel, equipment, reagents, etc., the protection of Lenin's body has also come to a standstill, not to mention that Lenin's body has been relocated and protected many times during the war.
It was not until after the end of World War II that the relevant Soviet departments systematically disposed of Lenin's body, but at this time Lenin's body was already corrupt due to lack of maintenance. As the panel discussed, the only solution was to remove most of Lenin's body, and replace the missing part with artificial silicone, which is why only 10% of Lenin's body remains today.
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With only 10% of Lenin's body left, why did Putin and the Russian people oppose burial?
Because only 10% of lenin's remains are preserved in the Kremlin today, the Russian government today is even more protective of it, in order to prevent the continued decay of the remains and the maintenance of the overall remains, russia in the annual cost of protecting Lenin's remains is as high as one million, and the domestic public has also begun to discuss whether to bury Lenin's body. The reason for the burial faction is simple, they believe that Lenin has been dead for many years, and now he still maintains the annual maintenance cost of millions, and has long lost the meaning of preserving Lenin's body, rather than wasting public resources, it is better to let him be buried as soon as possible.
However, this proposal was strongly opposed by Putin, who once stated that Lenin's body should not be cremated or otherwise disposed of, because Lenin has long become the spiritual pillar of Russia, and the people cannot lose Lenin. In addition to Putin's opposition, there are not a few people in Russia who oppose the burial of Lenin's body, and they believe that although today's Russia is no longer a socialist country like the Soviet Union, Russia was founded on the basis of the Soviet Union, that is to say, without Lenin's efforts to establish the Soviet Union and make a comeback, today's Russia would not exist.
Although the annual expenditure of millions is not a small amount, but the existence of Lenin's body is undoubtedly the best embodiment of the patriotic education of young russians, he let young people see the figure of their ancestors, let them understand the past of their ancestors' struggle, so that they cherish today's life more, and they will love their motherland more.
Another reason why the burial faction could not get its wish was that most of the millions of expenses for the preservation of Comrade Lenin's body were a spontaneous act of the people, that is, the source of this expenditure was mostly donated by those who were patriotic. This means that it will not have any impact on the national economy, and naturally there is no such thing as a waste of national treasury expenditure.