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| | Russia Weighs What to Do With Lenin's Body - New York Times |
 | | Lenin, who led the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, died in 1924 at the age of 53. |
 | | His once ubiquitous statues may have mostly been torn down in Eastern Europe, but they scowl at passers-by from the Russian Pacific to the Baltic, and it is not hard to find him on pedestals, murals or plaques in nations that have made great show of shaking free from Moscow's reach, including Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. |
 | | "Lenin," mused Natasha Zakharova, 23, as she walked off Red Square on Tuesday, admitting that she was not quite sure whose body she had just seen. |
| www.nytimes.com /2005/10/05/international/europe/05lenin.html?ei=5090&en=a5a9ac39d0c475a2&ex=1286164800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all (1299 words) |
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