Everyone knew what was in the redbrick 19th-century building by Red Square in Soviet times. It was the Lenin Museum, the home -- together with the nearby mausoleum -- of the Lenin cult, to which a visit was a rite of passage for Soviet children, sculpting the ideological view of the Bolshevik leader with the help of the vast number of items kept at the museum.
The Moscow Times: Red Square exhibit sheds new light on Soviet cult of Lenin
A file photo taken in July 1997, shows a municipal worker cleaning Soviet stars of the top of Ukraina Hotel in Moscow.
