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(20,363 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,362 posts)Rhiannon12866
(202,188 posts)There was a (very young) armed guard at the door and no one was let in carrying anything or with a long coat because of an attempt to shoot the corpse in the past. It was quite dark inside and the line was kept moving. Because of rumors that it wasn't really him, I kept my eyes on him trying to decide. I believe it was him.
MontanaMama
(23,219 posts)Thats an amazing thing to have witnessed.
Rhiannon12866
(202,188 posts)She retired to a town in NC and they had a "sister town" in the Caucasus Mountains and this was the initial visit. They need 17 to make the trip and people kept signing up and dropping out, so my grandmother suggested me. When she first brought it up, I thought she'd lost her mind since I grew up thinking the Russians hated us. But I couldn't say no to my Nana and it turned out to be an amazing trip - we met with other peace groups and saw the sights. All were senior citizens except for me and one other lady, but they were all experienced world travelers and politically active. They'd all fit in on DU, I became friends with them all.
Not to mention that the Russians we met, both the groups and just on the street, were incredibly welcoming and friendly, not what I expected. We traveled all over, were actually supposed to visit Kiev, but then Chernobyl happened - so we went to Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia instead. And there were numerous statues of Stalin there which confused me, so I asked - and I was told that Stalin was Georgian, not Russian, and he was admired since "he killed so any Russians."
But the biggest takeaway was that, having experienced the horrors of WWII on their own soil (particularly Leningrad), those we met were terrified of another war and never wanted to experience that again. There were statues and plaques - even in the schools - in remembrance of all those lost in the war and museums to teach the next generations about what they'd experienced.
And one day in Moscow was spent at the Kremlin - which is actually a fortress, built around 1492 by Italian artisans. That's where Lenin's Tomb was, so we got to see that as well. I wanted to be sure it was really him, so I looked him every minute I was there. It's very dark down there, but Lenin is lighted. And we were told that he's periodically re embalmed since he died in 1921! And the lines to see him were endless...
electric_blue68
(14,512 posts)Deuxcents
(15,671 posts)rurallib
(62,328 posts)erronis
(14,853 posts)There could never be enough to make up for the crimes he's inflicted on thousands, perhaps millions.
Much better a very slow and deliberative judicial process while he's in chains. A very long and televised incarceration. And then.
sheshe2
(83,138 posts)Might not be many body parts left under the clothes. I will take what we can get and him roasting in hell for all eternity.
dchill
(38,234 posts)Karma13612
(4,524 posts)With the intent of him suffering like Navalny.
Treat him so hes back to normal.
Then lock him in prison until hes dead.
dalton99a
(80,907 posts)Czar Nicholas II
KS Toronado
(16,715 posts)sheshe2
(83,138 posts)Share and share alike.
orangecrush
(19,151 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,366 posts)niyad
(112,064 posts)niyad
(112,064 posts)May he live in a never ending hell's fire.
tavernier
(12,299 posts)Unrepentant Fenian
(1,078 posts)Talitha
(6,450 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(143,654 posts)One can dream