Kremlin says moving Lenin would split Russia

The Kremlin will not move the embalmed body of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin from his mausoleum on Red Square because it fears splitting Russian society, a spokesman said on Thursday.

Lenin, who led the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and founded the Soviet Union, was embalmed after his death on January 21, 1924 and placed in a mausoleum in the shadow of the Kremlin's walls. (Reuters)