This is Lenin’s Mausoleum on Red Square. That’s where Lenin’s body is kept. It looks almost abandoned, and honestly, it feels like people in Russia just don’t care about this Soviet-era symbol anymore. | Buro Facts

When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, he wasn’t buried. Instead, his body was embalmed and placed inside a mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square, where it remains on public display more than a century later. But this isn’t traditional embalming. Roughly every 18 months, a specialist team of scientists performs an intensive preservation procedure. The body is submerged in a chemical solution of glycerol, potassium acetate, alcohol, and formaldehyde to prevent decay. Because Lenin’s blood vessels were seve