A century after Lenin's death, the USSR's founder seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia
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FILE - The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is seen on display in his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, Russia, on Wednesday, April 16, 1997. This year marks the 100th anniversary of his death. While he remains lauded by Communists with his body still on view, he is more of a curiosity than a leading force in Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, File)FILE - An elderly Communist supporter holds the flag of the former Soviet Union and a small portrait of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the country, outside his mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square, Russia, on Jan. 21, 1994. On the 100th anniversary of his 1924 death, Lenin is still lauded by Communists, but he is more of an afterthought in modern Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)FILE - People walk by a statue of Vladimir Lenin, painted in the colors of Ukraine's national flag, in Velyka Novosilka, Ukraine, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. In a speech three days before invading Ukraine in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to keep Lenin at arm's length, dismissing Ukraines sovereign status as an illegitimate holdover from Lenin's era, when it was a separate republic within the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)FILE - Russian Communists and supporters walk with their flags and a portrait of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, to visit his mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, to mark the 149th anniversary of his birth, on Monday, April 22, 2019. On the 100th anniversary of his 1924 death, Lenin is mostly an afterthought in modern Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)FILE - Russian Communists carry a portrait of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, and red flags after visiting his mausoleum marking the 152nd anniversary of his birth in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, April 22, 2022. While still lauded by Communists, Lenin is an afterthought in modern Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)FILE - Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is shown in at work at an unknown location of Russia in 1918. Shortly after his death in 1924, a poet proclaimed words that thrilled the grieving country: "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live." But a century later, Lenin is largely an afterthought in modern Russia. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, poses for a photographer in this 1922 photo in Gorky, outside Moscow. He died on Jan. 21, 1924. (AP Photo)FILE - Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, looks at a photographer August 1922. On the 100th anniversary of his 1924 death, Lenin is still lauded by Communists and his body is on view in his Red Square mausoleum, but he is more of a curiosity than a leading force in Russia. (AP Photo, File)FILE - The first mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, who died on Jan. 21, 1924, is seen in Red Square next to the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 25, 1924. Not long after his death that year, a popular poet proclaimed words that thrilled the grieving country: "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live." But Lenin remains mostly an afterthought in modern Russia. (AP Photo, File)Rosguardia, or National Guard, servicemen stand in front of the Red Square mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, on in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. The mausoleum where his embalmed corpse lies in an open sarcophagus is open only 15 hours a week and draws far fewer visitors than the Moscow Zoo. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)FILE The embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, lies behind glass in his mausoleum on Red Square outside the Kremlin wall in Moscow, Russia, in this photo taken on Nov. 30, 1994. On the 100th anniversary of his death, Lenin is still lauded by Communists, but he is more of an afterthought in modern Russia. (AP Photo, File)FILE - A couple walk by a portrait of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, at Palace Square to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday, Jan. 1, 1967. On the 100th anniversary of his death, Lenin remains lauded by Communists but he is more of an afterthought in modern Russia. (AP Photo, File)FILE - A participant in a pro-democracy rally shows his disgust for the Soviet system by ripping apart a portrait of its founder, Vladimir Lenin, in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, Feb. 25, 1990. A century after Lenins 1924 death, the once-omnipresent image of Lenin is largely an afterthought in modern Russia, despite the famous lines by poet Vladimir Mayakovsky: "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live." (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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FILE - The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is seen on display in his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, Russia, on Wednesday, April 16, 1997. This year marks the 100th anniversary of his death. While he remains lauded by Communists with his body still on view, he is more of a curiosity than a leading force in Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, File)
