Title: Lenin's coffin - LAKSHMI 3E4 (15)
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009
Time: 5:50 AM
SummaryThats Lenin. The dead Lenin. In Moscow, Lenin's coffin lies, preserved from the 19 hundreds till now. Well, its actually a mummy. There is a tomb for him, and people have to line up (for a long, long time) just to take a glance at him, to see what he was like. [maybe we should take a history class trip there someday?] It was a real shrine for the russian people. Currently, people want to remove this mummy or body and burry it away with the past. But many others, are against this, as they are afraid of making some sheer power to the tomb. It is cleaned every few years (the body) once every few years, and it is a pretty much awful sight! There are pictures of it infact. you can find it at this site: http://englishrussia.com/?p=659
Reflections
Its amazing to know that a man, dead long long ago, has such a great impact on people of the world now. His ideas of communism still run in China up till today. His dead body is still preserved AND people flock by the numbers just to take a glance at him. I think that this shows that poverty still exists in the world. China is approximately, a million times bigger than Singapore. Yet, it is affected by communism.
Communism, i believe, is about sharing wealth equally among citizens of a country. Normally, the rich would be against this idea for they do not want to share their gold with the poor. But, the poor would be for this idea, for this means no more poverty and more money, and with hungry stomachs, they cannot think rationally - they just want to fill up their stomachs first. Therefore, if communism is still lingering somewhere in the world - it means that poverty exists, according to me. Lenin, infact is worthy of being respected by the world. I think that he did a grave mistake in trying to make Russia into a communist country. But imagine, even if it wasn't Lenin, surely some other man would do the same thing - and they may make even more grave mistakes. But from Lenin, the world learnt something, not only Russia, and still learns it - just like us Pure history students.
Lenin was a great man - yes, he did improve the country for the better, but lost many lives through it. He was one of the turning points for Russia - for better, and worse.
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