Burial Lenin step closer

moscow - Russian parliamentarians took a step towards the burial of Communist leader Lenin on Thursday. The revolutionary body's balmy body is still in a mausoleum on the Red Square in Moscow, but a new law must make it possible to get him out of there.

Earlier attempts to bury the founding member of the Soviet Union led to nothing. There was fear of major unrest when Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov's body, alias Lenin, would be removed. Yet last year, a poll showed that a majority of Russians prefer a true grave for the communist.

Six parliamentarians therefore presented a bill to allow Lenin's burial. This does not mean that the body will be moved shortly if the proposal is approved. The law only deletes provisions that are currently in the process of repatriation.

The death of Lenin in 1924 itself did not claim to end the ambition in a mausoleum. He would have said to be buried next to his mother in St. Petersburg.