俄執政黨呼籲將列寧墓遷出紅場
俄羅斯執政黨“統一俄羅斯黨”最近開展的一項調查顯示，三分之二的俄羅斯民衆支持將列寧墓遷出紅場。據悉，這項調查名爲“再見列寧”，截止到上週日下午已有20萬人參與投票，其中有三分之二贊成將列寧遺體下葬。對此結果俄羅斯共產黨表示懷疑，他們指責“統一俄羅斯黨”在調查時“做了手腳”，並且認爲“統一俄羅斯黨”的這一做法是爲了轉移社會矛盾焦點。有分析人士認爲，“統一俄羅斯黨”在議會選舉和總統選舉民調開始之前開展此項調查，意圖可能是要向世人展現其推進俄羅斯現代化進程的決心。
Two-thirds of Russians want Vladimir Lenin to be removed from his Red Square mausoleum in central Moscow, a new poll has shown.
The poll, organised by Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party, comes after a senior figure in the party sparked a lively debate on the issue, saying the time had come to respect Lenin's last wishes and bury him in St Petersburg alongside his mother.
"Lenin was an extremely controversial political figure and his presence as the main figure in a necropolis in the heart of our country is absurd," Anatoly Medinsky, an MP and member of the party's governing committee, said.
Only 10 per cent of Lenin's corpse remained, he said, alleging that the rest had been "ripped out and replaced a long time ago". The body's presence in a purpose-built mausoleum on Red Square had turned the country's central square into a cemetery and was "blasphemous", Mr Medinsky added.
Lenin's waxy corpse remains a popular tourist attraction and is regularly treated with a special cocktail of chemicals to stop it from degrading.
But with a parliamentary election looming later this year and a presidential poll next year, analysts believe that the ruling United Russia party may be considering closing the Red Square mausoleum in order to show the world it is serious about modernising the country.
The poll, organised online at a specially created site mischievously named Goodbye Lenin suggested that most Russians agreed. As of Sunday afternoon, almost 200,000 votes had been cast with more than two-thirds saying they favoured Lenin being buried.
It was possible to vote more than once however and the Russian Communist party, which is staunchly opposed to Lenin's removal, claimed the results were being rigged in order to pave the way for a bill ordering his burial.
"This is about distracting people's attention from social problems and genuine issues concerning the Russian Federation," Valery Rashkin, a Communist MP, told the Ekho Moskvy radio station.
Lenin, who died in 1924, is still revered by the Russian Communist party as an ideological genius who laid the foundations for the world's largest superpower.
