<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishKama ilivyoelezwa na mwanahistoria Katherine Verdery katika kitabu chake cha The Political Lives of Dead Bodies in the Post-Socialist Transformation, Mwili wa watu waliochimbuliwa kutoka kwenye makaburi ya watu wa zamani wa kikomunisti umechimbuliwa na viongozi wa kikomunisti.  <response>: In Eastern Europe, exhumed bodies have been used as symbols by political parties, as anthropologist Katherine Verdery explains in her forthcoming book, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies in the Postsocialist Transformation . For instance, liberal reform parties have disinterred Communist leaders from their mausoleums while reburying pre-Communist nationalist heroes in elaborate sarcophagi. 