Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Sarah Brumble

Communist Mummies

Vladimir Ilych Lenin
Moscow, Russia
Ho Chi Minh
Hanoi, Vietnam
Chairman Mao Zedong
Beijing, China
Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, North Korea
Stalin
Moscow, Russia
Eva Peron
Buenos Aires, Argentina

1 comment:

  1. Atlas Obscura’s Guide to Communist Mummies

    http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/atlas-obscura-s-guide-to-communist-mummies

    “It is easy to be a saint if you have no wish to be human.” – Karl Marx

    While these dictators and despots held unquestioned power in their lifetimes, they wielded no such control in death. Despite requesting to be buried or cremated, their comrades had other plans and they were turned into mummified waxy icons – each a human-corpse embodiment of the country they once ruled.

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