The When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924,

When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, thousands of mourners poured into Moscow

to pay their respects, and to see the Soviet Union founder's body, line, and state.

It was January, and although the fallen leader was originally to be displayed only briefly,

the frigid temperatures kept him preserved for a good two months, and in all that time, the flow of visitors never slowed.

Which gave Lenin's more rabid followers an idea.

What if they wondered?

We could preserve Lenin forever.

Now the Soviets were not interested in mummifying Lenin.

No, they wanted him to remain exactly as he was, life-like even.

Hundreds of scientists work day and night on this common goal. First, they injected the

corpse with embalming fluids, sounds fairly normal but then they also

stuffed him into a rubber suit filled with more fluid to keep him perpetually

moist and elastic and that's not all every other year the body would spend a month and a half in various

cocktails of glycerol formaldehyde, potassium acetate, and other ingredients, essentially

turning the man into a human pickle.

They res sculpted parts of his face.

They replaced his eyelashes one by one and continuously altered the coloring and texture

of his skin

due to the fact that too much contact with that chemical formula

tended to turn the body the color of,

and I quote, canned tuna,

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