LENIN ON TOUR?

Publication: Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 145

July 25, 1997 07:00 AM Age: 27 years

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, bad boy of Russian politics, has sent an official letter to President Boris Yeltsin offering to buy Lenin’s embalmed corpse. Zhirinovsky proposes to take the body touring round the Russian provinces as a kind of peepshow. The Kremlin has not yet responded. (Segodnya, July 23)

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