Shortly after the Soviets retreated, Polish townspeople rounded up hundreds of their Jewish neighbors and forced them to dismantle a monument of Vladimir Lenin that the Soviets had installed. From ...

Thirty-five years ago this July, an avalanche killed forty-three climbers on a mountain called Lenin Peak. I witnessed the ...

Thirty-five years ago this July, an avalanche killed forty-three climbers on a mountain called Lenin Peak. I witnessed the disaster and have lived with the memories ever since. Here’s the untold story ...

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The burial process hasn’t changed much since the late 1800s. An 1890 photo by Jacob Riis shows coffins being lowered into a trench, and an aerial video today shows a similar scene.

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Lenin's Mausoleum is ranked #6 out of 7 things to do in Moscow. ... It contains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, a disturbing site that has been on display almost every day since his death in ...

Jewish tradition forbade burial within the walls of a city, and the Gospels specify that Jesus was buried outside of Jerusalem, near the site of his crucifixion on Golgotha ("the place of skulls").

Protesters rally in front of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on a central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Nicolas Tanner ...

In Osh, Kyrgyzstan, authorities have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be the tallest of its kind in Central Asia. Erected in 1975, when Kyrgyzstan was part of the ...

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia. The 23 ...