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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: Let's Embalm Lenin
Description: The corpse of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, was placed on display in Moscow's Red Square on 27th January, 1924 - where, astonishingly, he remains viewable to this day.
He’d wanted to be buried next to his mother in Saint Petersburg, but after he suffered a series of strokes, the Soviet government instead secretly planned to build a mausoleum for his body, in part to deify him as a quasi-religious figure.
In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how pioneering embalming techniques were created by ‘The Lenin...