When we were in Jerusalem, we saw the thousands of tombs on the Mount of Olives well placed for the Messiah to walk by. In the Nikolaikirche in Berlin we saw tombs near relics which was supposed to smooth the passage into the afterlife. Communism too appears to have its favoured burial place: the Western Wall of the Kremlin was their spot. Lenin's Mausoleum is there (so dark inside I almost missed the stairs and came a cropper) and others have their graves just behind - including the mass murderer, Stalin. Odd to think that supposedly scientific humanist systems appear to have their own shrines and "holy" sites.
The fact that the Communist revolution adopted other traditions is clear from the fact that Stalin lived in the Kremlin where the Czars of old resided.
The fact that the Communist revolution adopted other traditions is clear from the fact that Stalin lived in the Kremlin where the Czars of old resided.
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