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Putin cautious over future of Lenin's body

The president is worried that the issue of reburial might split the Russian society
One of the last photos of Vladimir Lenin, 1923 ITAR-TASS/archive
One of the last photos of Vladimir Lenin, 1923
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STAVROPOL, January 25. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that such issues as the future of Vladimir Lenin’s body should be approached cautiously so that the society migght not be split.

"The way I see it, this issue [of reburial] must be approached carefully. There should be no steps that might split our society. On the contrary, it should be consolidated," Putin said at an inter-reginal forum of the All-Russia People’s Front on Monday.