Russia's Modern Mummies

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This is the story of how one of Russia\'s greatest communist dictators, Lenin, was mummified and placed on public display in Red Square Moscow. The programme examines the brave scientists that pioneered the first of this kind of body preservation. Failure would mean death under the regime of Stalin who ordered his adversary\'s body placed in permanent state.
This film contains unique footage of the world\'s only modern mummification lab, from archive to modern day. The scientists, who now continually tend the mummified Lenin, do so with regimental precision. We go behind the scenes to see some of the most extraordinary images to come from communist Russia.
2000 years after the last Egyptian pharaohs were mummified an ancient ritual was revived in early twentieth century Russia. The world\'s first modern mummy was created in 1924 and Red Square, Moscow, is where it still lies to this day. This is the body of Lenin. A frail body that has been experimented on for over 70 years. Other dictators have been mummified by the same lab, including Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Minh.
This film reveals, in detail, the shocking and pioneering work of the Russian mummification scientists and their extraordinary experiments on dead human bodies.

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[the6thmonkey]

@HisEmptyHouse wtf lenin was loved by the people, learn some history you racist dickhead.

[mphet26]

@chickenwretch Ok. And what about Obama, Cameron and Sarcozy? or they kill not so many people?

[BHuang92]

Lenin is the my man, Stalin is the person whom I WILL shoot myself then to meet him.

[trupoed10]

music from scary film in background. sepulchral voice: "bloody russians worked on mummification of worlds dictators"...

[Zkabs]

@SamoalTaei do germans have Hitlers genetics?

[Nitroimidazol]

@the6thmonkey after he morder 200 000 people, everybody must love him hehe

[ironshota]

fuuuuuuuuuuu

[SamoalTaei]

Does this mean the Russians still maintain Lenin's genetics??

[ten8goa]

THE PEOPLE DONT LOVE A DICTATOR, DICKHEAD

[FREEDOM14U]

Lenin's legacy is smeared with blood from head to toe. Even the town that he was born in wants to retract his name from them. What is amazing to me is all the thumbs up people get from bogus information on him.  He is a mummy and his organs are NOT in him. Private donations are keeping him preserved every 18 months when he gets an over haul and is dunked in a tank full of preservatives. Russians aren't all in love w/ him. The state isn't even paying to keep him preserved. Google his history.