MP wants to re-bury Lenin as a Christian?

[尼古拉前执事]

Warsaw (ENI). A Russian Orthodox spokesman has called for Lenin's body to be removed from its mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square and reburied according to Christian rites, as debates rage on about how holy the site is where the atheist revolutionary is buried. Russian Orthodox Church observers have noted that opinions remained divided over the famous landmark, whose future has been debated since the Soviet Union's 1990-1 break-up. "It isn't normal for a person's body to be placed on public display and used as an exhibit," said Vsevolod Chaplin, deputy director of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Affairs Department, in remarks reported by Poland's Kosciol.pl ecumenical news agency. [669 words, ENI-04-0159]

[ania]

Interesting... My sister is speaking at a symposium (sp?) here in DC in the next 2 weeks sometime at the Wilson Center about post-communist Orthodoxy, and Chaplain is also going to speak. I'll ask her to ask him for more details, might not get a chance to though, as it will be a very busy event.

[Tikon]

Warsaw (ENI). A Russian Orthodox spokesman has called for Lenin's body to be removed from its mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square and reburied according to Christian rites, as debates rage on about how holy the site is where the atheist revolutionary is buried. Russian Orthodox Church observers have noted that opinions remained divided over the famous landmark, whose future has been debated since the Soviet Union's 1990-1 break-up. "It isn't normal for a person's body to be placed on public display and used as an exhibit," said Vsevolod Chaplin, deputy director of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Affairs Department, in remarks reported by Poland's Kosciol.pl ecumenical news agency. [669 words, ENI-04-0159]

I think it would be more appropriate to pile logs under his crypt and BURN it and him. Would cleanse Red Square, and make the view of Holy St. Basil's much better!

[ania]

It would be kind of hard to burn the mausoleum, as it's made from stone. Perhaps someone can suggest another option?

[Natasha]

I don't think that the Orthodox in Russia would be big proponents of burning him since we do not believe in cremation.
I think he should be buried somewhere and no longer given this heroic status. We should never forget history, but I think the Russian people should take a step forward to annihilating these communist era relics that are all over the country.

[Tikon]

It would be kind of hard to burn the mausoleum, as it's made from stone. Perhaps someone can suggest another option?

Try a wrecking ball and bulldozer.

[Tikon]

I don't think that the Orthodox in Russia would be big proponents of burning him since we do not believe in cremation.
I think he should be buried somewhere and no longer given this heroic status. We should never forget history, but I think the Russian people should take a step forward to annihilating these communist era relics that are all over the country.

I realize as Orthodox we don't believe in cremation, but...he was an atheist, so in his case, they could make an exception.

No honorable burial for regicides who had their God-Anointed Tsar killed!