From his posh Presidio perch in misty San Francisco, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was yesterday warning the Kremlin against being hasty in burying the embalmed body of his hero, Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin.
The nation, he claimed, wasn't yet ready for such a move.
It's not the Lenin ideology that Gorbachev wants buried to sleep in peace, but the american one. "Our purpose is to disarm the americans and let them fall asleep," Gorbachev said in a 1987 speech to the Politburo.
Gorbachev has come a long way in his agenda "to disarm the americans and let them fall asleep".
Two years after his resignation as President of the Soviet Union, which he dissolved on Christmas Day 1991, Gorbachev founded Green Cross International (GCI). In GCI, Gorbachev devised a mechanism for converting american military bases to civilian uses converting the bases over to "global centers for sustainability".
a $3.5-million bailout preceded Gorbachev's arrival in america to the Presidio, one of his new country's most prestigious former military bases—the same place where the UN and UN religious charters were signed.
It was in april 1993 that Mikhail Gorbachev and his pre-funded Gorbachev Foundation moved into new american headquarters, a white, shingled bayfront house at the historic Presidio overlooking the Golden Bridge.
It was in 1994 when the U.S. Sixth army departed the scene and when the Presidio was officially transferred over to the National Parks Service. In 1989, the Base Realignment and Closure Committee had designated the Presidio for closure.
a land-grabbing United Nations took over the Golden Gate National Recreation area on which the Presidio sits, courtesy of Public Law 87-297.
Gorbachev says that "Lenin's body should eventually be laid to rest at a proper moment in line with his own will, but added that `this moment has not come yet', the ITaR-Tass news agency reported." (NewsMax.com, Oct. 11, 2005),
But the record shows that Lenin did not will his body for Red Square public showcasing. He wanted to be buried next to his mother in St. Petersburg.
Georgy Poltavchenko, a regional envoy of President Vladimir Putin, said last month, the body should be taken out of its Red Square mausoleum and buried in a cemetery along with the remains of other Bolshevik dignitaries.
Russian Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov warned last week that his party would stage a massive disobedience action if authorities try to bury Lenin's body.
Gorbachev said the issue could be resolved only on the basis of public accord, but "a great deal is still to done before stability develops into national accord."
Lenin's preserved corpse has been waiting for a decent burial since 1924.
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Red Square is fenced off and members of the public at large may pass through a checkpoint where they are fleeced for hidden cameras and other forbidden items before walking across the black bricks of the square to the mausoleum.
By most accounts, taking a gander at the clenched fisted corpse of Lenin is a spooky if not macabre experience,
Meanwhile, american military bases have been dropping like proverbial flies under the Gorbachev "global centers for sustainability" agenda. But every 18 months, the corpse of Vladimir Lenin gets decked out in a new suit.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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