Gorbachev: Lenin must be buried

Ex-President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the body of Vladimir Lenin must be buried, but not now, and later, RIA Novosti reports. “I am in order to bury, to betray the earth,” said Gorbachev. At the same time, he noted that it is necessary to be sharp in choosing a moment. The burial of the body of Lenin now, according to Gorbachev, can split the country. “In principle, I am for. But, for example, now, I would not have spoke for it,” the ex -president of the USSR noted.

On January 20, Uneneros Vladimir Medinsky proposed to bear the remains of Lenin from the Mausoleum. According to him, "this is some kind of ridiculous, pagan-Nekrofil mission in Red Square." The opinion of Medinsky was supported by his same party, deputy Robert Schlegel.

The Communists, traditionally opposing the burial of Lenin, called the statements of the unicorn provocation. The coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov appealed to the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General. In his opinion, Medinsky incites the social disorder to the social group "Harshes of the Communist Worldview."

The Presidential Affairs Management, in turn, stated that the decision to bury Vladimir Lenin will be made by the country's leadership. So far, the Kremlin has not determined the fate of the body of Lenin.

On January 24, the head of the Central Executive Committee of United Russia, Andrei Vorobyov, said that proposals for the burial of the body of Lenin are the private opinion of individual unicorns. However, according to him, it is possible that in the future the party may come up with such an initiative. “This is the initiative of individual united Russia. But it is relevant in society,” Vorobyov said. He noted that the topic is very widely discussed, and the vote organized on the Goodbylenin.ru website shows approximately the same results as the previously conducted sociological studies.

Vorobyov, the first part of the State Duma, Oleg Morozov, confirmed that the proposal to bury the body of Lenin does not come from the party, but from a separate deputy. "The party did not consider this issue in any form at the official level," said Morozov. According to him, "the country has quite important problems that you need to deal with today."

According to the results of the VTsIOM survey, most Russians (61 percent) believe that Lenin’s body needs to be buried, 44 percent of them consider the presence of his body in the mausoleum unnatural and wrong. According to 43 percent of the respondents, it is necessary to remove the body of the leader of the revolution without delay, and 18 percent of Russians are advised to postpone this until the generation, which Lenin is dear. According to sociologists, Lenin’s body in the mausoleum is offered less than a third of respondents - 29 percent. The All-Russian survey of the VTsome was conducted on January 29-30, 2011. 1.6 thousand people in 138 settlements in 46 regions, edges and republics of Russia were interviewed. The statistical error does not exceed 3.4 percent.