What would Vladimir Lenin have said?
After the Bolshevik revolution, “while many of the other Kremlin magnates were soon enjoying the trappings of power, Lenin and Nadya [his wife] lived fairly modestly. Their domestic arrangements were similar to the way they had existed in exile — unostentatious,” writes Victor Sebestyen, author of an acclaimed new biography on Lenin.
The couple rarely dined in the well-stocked Kremlin restaurant — Lenin’s wife could be seen “trudging along the pavements with black bread under her arm and a tureen of soup.”
Across from Lenin’s Mausoleum in Red Square, where the preserved, waxy body of the Soviet …read more
Source: Voice of America
