Vietnam’s communist government has formed a special council to assess the state of its most sacred icon: the corpse — first embalmed by Soviet chemists and other forensic specialists a half-century ago — of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh.
RFE/RL: Vietnam calls in Russia’s embalm squad
Photographed for the first time in 30 years, the embalmed body of Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader and Soviet Union founder Vladimir Ilyich Lenin lies Oct. 28, 1991, in the Mausoleum (built in 1930) bearing his name in Moscow's Red Square near Kremlin Palace. The body may be viewed by the public.
