俄罗斯执政党“统一俄罗斯党”最近开展的一项调查显示，三分之二的俄罗斯民众支持将列宁墓迁出红场。

Two-thirds of Russians want Vladimir Lenin to be removed from his Red Square mausoleum in central Moscow, a new poll has shown.
Two-thirds of Russians want Vladimir Lenin to be removed from his Red Square mausoleum（陵墓） in central Moscow, a new poll has shown.

The poll, organised by Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party, comes after a senior figure in the party sparked a lively debate on the issue, saying the time had come to respect Lenin's last wishes and bury him in St Petersburg alongside his mother.

"Lenin was an extremely controversial political figure and his presence as the main figure in a necropolis（大墓地） in the heart of our country is absurd（荒诞的） ," Anatoly Medinsky, an MP and member of the party's governing committee, said.

Only 10 per cent of Lenin's corpse¹ remained, he said, alleging² that the rest had been "ripped out and replaced a long time ago". The body's presence in a purpose-built mausoleum on Red Square had turned the country's central square into a cemetery³ and was "blasphemous⁴（亵渎神明的） ", Mr Medinsky added.

Lenin's waxy⁵ corpse remains⁶ a popular tourist attraction and is regularly treated with a special cocktail⁷ of chemicals to stop it from degrading.

But with a parliamentary election looming⁸ later this year and a presidential poll next year, analysts⁹ believe that the ruling United Russia party may be considering closing the Red Square mausoleum in order to show the world it is serious about modernising the country.

The poll, organised online at a specially¹⁰ created site mischievously¹¹（淘气地，有害地） named Goodbye Lenin suggested that most Russians agreed. As of Sunday afternoon, almost 200,000 votes had been cast with more than two-thirds saying they favoured Lenin being buried.

It was possible to vote more than once however and the Russian Communist party, which is staunchly（坚定地，忠实地） opposed to Lenin's removal, claimed the results were being rigged in order to pave the way for a bill ordering his burial.

"This is about distracting people's attention from social problems and genuine issues concerning the Russian Federation," Valery Rashkin, a Communist MP, told the Ekho Moskvy radio station.

Lenin, who died in 1924, is still revered¹²（敬畏，尊敬） by the Russian Communist party as an ideological¹³（思想的） genius who laid the foundations for the world's largest superpower.