article_snippet.sent: According to a detailed report by Jeremy Hsu in Scientific American, the Russians prefer to preserve the body's shape, weight, colour and flexibility, rather than biological tissue. '
article_snippet.sent: the Russians have to substitute occasional parts of skin and flesh with plastics and other materials,' Alexei Yurchak, professor of social anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley told Jeremy Hsu. '
article_snippet.sent: The Last Soviet Generation.'