I travelled the world and the seven seas... [Part 1: 30/6-6/7 - Moscow and the Trans-Siberian]

[danny_e11]

Since I'm staying in tonight, I might as well get some of the travel report out of the way

So, it all started VERY early in the morning of Sat 30th June, when I headed over to Heathrow and from them flew to Moscow.

Comments

[melancholyrose_]

I only popped onto LJ to tell people I will not be on here for a while as I am now in receipt of the new Harry Potter book* but I saw you had posted this and felt it would be rude not to read it

[danny_e11]

I am honoured of being the only entry you devoted some of your precious happy potter time for ;-)

As for your question, yeah - he was embalmed when he died and Stalin had a mausoleum built on the Red Square for the people to be able to see the founder of the first socialist state in the world in the decades to come. Stalin himself had in his mind that he would rest alongside him once he'd be dead himself, except Krushchev had other ideas, having reassessed his legacy and exposed his crimes, and so old big mustache had to make to with being interred along the Cremlin wall with all the other 'common' Soviet leaders and heroes ;-)

The body is very well preserved, so much that some malicious ones allege it might actually be a waxwork. Either way like I said its a pretty dramatic setting.