A DEAD LENIN ISN’T DANGEROUS.

Researchers from the Russianmeteorological committee and the Academy of Sciences have investigatedrecent press reports that Lenin’s embalmed body was giving offsome kind of mysterious radiation to visitors to the Red Squaremausoleum, Pravda reported July 1. The investigation foundthat Lenin was not giving off any kind of radiation. What isremarkable is not the finding itself, but the fact that suchan investigation was launched at all.

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