Lenin Update

This sounds like it could be a regular segment on the blog..."What to do with Lenin?"

Reuters is reporting that a new suitor for Lenin has emerged. This one comes from the Buddhist region of Russia known as Kalmykia. Apparently, the head of that region, Kirsan Illyumzhinov, has offered up $1 million dollars for the right to move the entire dog-and-pony show that is Lenin's mausoleum to Elista, the capital of the region. The cadaver would then be put on permanent display. One of the motives for this is that some historians say the Lenin was one quarter Kalmyk.

This is a strange debate indeed. Who will emerge next? I think it's safe to say that it won't be any of Russia's oil tycoons who have made their millions off of the free market economy....