A man has been detained in Moscow after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the notorious Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin’s tomb in Red Square in a failed attempt to set it on fire, according to local ...
The tomb is a popular attraction drawing both domestic and foreign visitors that always form a long line waiting to enter the mausoleum and see embalmed body of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. According ...
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. The truth is, it's been years since I visited the mausoleum. But ...
Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A century ...
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international ...