Death still suits Lenin, even 100 years later. The embalmed body of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov lies clad in a fine suit in a specially built mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square. Lenin was born in 1870 and died in 1924. And even decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union he founded, tourists still come to peer at the founder of a new world order, in his dimly-lit crystal sarcophagus. The site is also a place of pilgrimage for Russian communists, who laid flowers and wre
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead! I remember that intro from the news round-up on the original SNL (by far the best SNL).. The reason I bring up Franco is because there are some on the Radical Right that are trying to resurrect this fascist dictator. Is the fascism? Or is it the popped fur…