article_snippet.sent: the former leader's remains were embalmed on Stalin's orders when the former leader died aged 53 in 1924 and kept on display in Moscow apart from a period in the Second World War .
article_snippet.sent: The revolutionary's body is on public display in a mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square more than two decades after the break-up of the former USSR.
article_snippet.sent: But this year Russian officials closed Red Square so that scientists could prepare the body for public display during Lenin's 145th birthday anniversary – which took place yesterday.
article_snippet.sent: The Bolshevik leader's remains were embalmed on Stalin's orders when The Bolshevik leader died aged 53 in 1924 and kept on display in Moscow apart from a period in the Second World War.
article_snippet.sent: In 2012, Russia was edging towards a historic decision to bury the embalmed corpse of the founder of the Soviet Union.
article_snippet.sent: The revolutionary's body is on public display in a mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square more than two decades after the break-up of the former USSR .
highlights_snippet.sent: At one time, 200 scientists were working to help preserve Lenin's body .