It is well known that the crystal coffin is derived from the Christian tradition of the cult of the holy body, in which God performs miracles through the bodies of the saints. After the end of the fourth century, the cult of the Virgin, the saints, relics of the saints’ remains, and holy images, in addition to God and Jesus Christ, gradually emerged as objects of Christian worship. These holy relics were enshrined in crystal vessels encrusted with precious stones for pilgrims to venerate. In particular, the immortal corpse is considered a witness to the true saints and a symbol of the miraculous.
The crystal caskets, or caskets made of crystal glass, which are used to lay the remains of saints to rest, are composed mainly of pure silica. In order to preserve the remains for a long time, most crystal coffins are filled with an inert gas, such as helium.
By the twenty-first century, no fewer than 103 saints have been recognized by the Church as having incorruptible remains, the most famous being the French saint Bernadette. She has been dead for more than a hundred years. Before she was canonized, the Catholic Church requested three times that her remains be exhumed for examination. All three exhumations reported that the Virgin’s remains were in perfect condition: “the hands interlaced on the chest were perfect” and “there was no smell of decomposition of the body”. Jacqueline, an internationally acclaimed expert in the restoration and preservation of human remains, said: “The most fascinating aspect of my research on the Immortal Body was the Virgin Bernadette. She is lifelike and the best-preserved immortal body.”
However, the Communist Party, which preaches atheism, imitates Christianity, Catholicism and Orthodoxy by displaying the dead body of the Communist Party leader in a costly crystal coffin after special treatment and asking the public to worship it. This is undoubtedly a great irony.
On the one hand, the Communist Party demonizes religion, outlaws and suppresses it, and opposes theism; on the other hand, it deceives and forces the people to worship the so-called leaders and their zombies as gods. Moreover, according to communist propaganda, communists who believe in materialism should all believe that people die like lamps and that preserving a corpse is as meaningless as preserving rotting flesh. From this point of view communists are not true materialists.
So far, the zombies placed in crystal coffins to receive worship are Lenin and Stalin of the Soviet Union, Dimitrov, General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Choibalsan, Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Marshal of Mongolia, Gottwald, Chairman of the Czech Communist Party, Ho Chi Minh, Chairman of the Vietnam Labor Party and President of the State, Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, Chairman and General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea. These Communist Party leaders of various countries, displayed in crystal coffins, all committed unforgivable crimes against their own people during their lives and continue to confound people after their deaths.
However, unlike the remains of saints such as Christians, which do not decay for a century without any special treatment, the treated bodies of the aforementioned communist party leaders have decayed over time. Some of the coffins have been buried with the fall of the communist regime in the Soviet East, while for the Chinese, the topic of when Mao’s coffin will be removed from Tiananmen Square is of greater concern.
Lenin was made into a dry corpse 10% of his remains now exist
In January 1924, Lenin, the supreme leader of the Soviet Communist Party, died. His successor, Stalin, demanded to preserve Lenin’s remains, but was opposed by Politburo members Trotsky, Bukharin and Lenin’s widow Krupskaya, who believed that making Lenin’s remains into a dry corpse was an insult to his image, which was completely contrary to Lenin’s worldview.
However, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union finally decided to preserve Lenin’s remains. This move set a precedent for preserving the body of a party leader in a communist country. However, no one knew at the time what method could be used to preserve the body for a long time. The Soviet Communist Party then ordered a team of anatomist Vorobyov, biochemist Boris Zbarsky, and others to form a preservation team for Lenin’s remains, and was given a three-month time limit to complete the preservation task.
During this three-month period, Zbarsky and his assistants first dissected Lenin’s remains, removed his internal organs, and then injected a medicinal solution into the blood vessels around his body, replacing the water in the muscle tissue with the solution. Eventually, they succeeded in preserving Lenin’s body in a crystal coffin. At that time, the structure and manufacturing process of the crystal coffin was the number one state secret of the Soviet Union. Above the crystal coffin is Lenin’s tomb. Initially a wooden structure, the construction was changed to granite and marble in 1930.
According to some mainland media, the preservation of Lenin’s remains in the crystal coffin was not a light task, both in terms of the technology and the expense of preservation. What began as a small research team soon grew into a huge institution, the “Lenin Laboratory”, in 1939. Here, dozens of top scientists worked around the clock, not only with unrestricted funding but also with a large number of first-class facilities, and their only task was to preserve Lenin’s corpse. It is said that it costs more than one million dollars a year to maintain Lenin’s body.
Despite this cost, decay occurred again and again, and Lenin’s tomb was closed for long periods in 1930, 1934 and 1938. Officially, it was “to take care of Lenin’s body”, but anyone who is an insider knows that Lenin’s body was decomposing.
During World War II, Lenin’s body was sent to Tyumen, Western Siberia, and hidden in a local agricultural college. In December 1943, the body began to decompose, and experts had to amputate one of Lenin’s legs and part of his left limb and replace it with a prosthetic one.
In 1957, Mao’s personal physician, Li Zhisui, accompanied Mao to Moscow and saw the bodies of Lenin and Stalin. Both bodies looked dried out, and Lenin’s nose and ears were so rotten that they had to be replaced with wax. A picture of a doctor at work caring for Lenin’s remains revealed even more tragic conditions: lying in a crystal coffin, Lenin’s stomach was empty, and the area suffering from a large syphilis sore was a large hole.
In 1961, Lenin’s body decomposed again. To prevent the head from being affected by the extensive decay of the torso, the Soviets, with Khrushchev’s consent, had to remove the head and install it on an artificial torso. Then Lenin’s flesh torso was cremated, so that public opinion said that “only 10% of Lenin’s remains are stored in Lenin’s tomb”.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians frequently initiated proposals to move Lenin’s tomb out of Red Square. They either took an anti-communist stance or explained that Lenin himself did not request the preservation of his remains and that his family wanted to be buried in peace. Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s 1998 decision to bury Lenin and remove his tomb from Red Square on the grounds that displaying his body was “unchristian and a crime” was blocked by him on the grounds that it was “premature”.
The Russian government, though not officially, stopped allocating funds for the care of Lenin’s body. Now, Lenin’s tomb laboratory has been renamed the Center for Biostructural Research, which cares for the remains entirely at its own expense. The center’s leaders say they may have to sell the embalming recipe to get out of the situation if they can’t sustain themselves financially.
In March 2017, all priests of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad read a simultaneous statement at Sunday Mass that removing Lenin from Red Square before the centenary of the October Revolution “would be a sign of the Russian people’s return to God.” Some Russian lawmakers pointed out that Lenin’s hands are stained with the blood of millions of people, and is a symbol of national misfortune, social unrest and red terror.
However, the proposal to bury Lenin has been temporarily shelved due to the Putin regime’s fear that Russia will be divided over this. This shows that Lenin is still confusing many Russians.
Stalin’s body was removed from Lenin’s tomb
Stalin, who took control of the highest power in the Soviet Union after Lenin, died in 1953. Afterwards, his body was also put into a crystal coffin and buried in Lenin’s tomb, side by side with Lenin’s crystal coffin for the Soviets to worship.
The resolution adopted by the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on October 31, 1961, stated: “In view of Stalin’s gross violation of Lenin’s will, abuse of power, and widespread repression of loyal and upright Soviet citizens, it is inappropriate to keep Stalin’s remains in Lenin’s tomb any longer. Stalin’s massive violations of the rule of law and many other acts during the period of personal worship made it impossible to keep his coffin in Lenin’s tomb any longer.” Thus, Stalin’s body was lifted out of the crystal coffin.
According to the article “The Mystery of the Sudden Removal of Stalin’s Body from Lenin’s Tomb” written by Ye Yonglie, Stalin’s body was carried out late one night after the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, placed in a newly prepared coffin, and later buried in the group of graves of the leaders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union behind Lenin’s tomb, under the walls of the Kremlin.
Other Communist Party leaders displayed in crystal coffins
Dimitrov, the General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party, was the first Communist Party leader to receive the “Leninist treatment”. After his death in 1949, his body was embalmed and maintained by the scientists of “Lenin’s Laboratory”.
In addition, the scientists of “Lenin’s Laboratory” helped to preserve the remains of Mongolian leader Choibalsan, Czechoslovakian leader Gottwald, Chairman of the Vietnamese Labor Party XI Ho Chi Minh, North Korean Kim Il Sung, as well as Angolan leader Neto and Guyanese leader Forbes Burnham. They were all placed in crystal coffins for “public display” after their deaths.
In 1956, the new Czech leaders declared that it was “not in keeping with the traditions of the people” to preserve the bodies in this manner and subsequently cremated Gotthard’s body. There is also a theory that his body was cremated and buried by the Czech government because it was corrupted in 1962.
In addition, Dimitrov’s body was moved and cremated by his family in July 1990 after the East European upheaval, and in 2005, the zombie of Mongolian dictator and murderous Choibalsan was also cremated. However, the bodies of Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam and Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il of North Korea are still placed in the so-called memorial palace so far, deceiving the Vietnamese and North Koreans. It is said that the remains of Kim Il Sung cost a huge amount of money to protect, about $800,000 per year.
Conclusion
These party leaders placed in crystal coffins by the Communist Party were all good, bad, unscrupulous and harmful during their lives, and continued to use the decaying corpses to confuse the people after their death. However, history proves that retribution is only a matter of time, and sooner or later they will be burned and buried.
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