Comments on: The Art Of Preserving Dead Communists http://robertbonnett.com/2009/10/06/the-art-of-preserving-dead-communists/ Misanthropy And Persiflage Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:25:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Red Square/Red River: the Soviet Spectres of Vietnam | Russia http://robertbonnett.com/2009/10/06/the-art-of-preserving-dead-communists/#comment-386 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:13:50 +0000 http://robertbonnett.wordpress.com/?p=2829#comment-386 [...] Embalming dead revolutionaries was one of the Soviet Union’s strongest cultural exports, and Vietnam was no exception. So, despite Ho Chi Minh’s stated desire to be cremated, he was given the full Lenin treatment by Soviet taxidermists and now lies in state in a marble mausoleum, designed by Soviet architects. [...]

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