“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.
Atlas Obscura’s Guide to Communist Mummies
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“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.