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Yeltsin ordered to bury Lenin’s body, ‘demolish Mausoleum,’ Russia’s former PM reveals

“Boris Nikolayevich [Yeltsin] ordered me to demolish the mausoleum. It was in 1998,” said  Stepashin, who at that particular time served as minister of interior affairs and later in 1999 was appointed PM, in an interview with Istorik (Historian) magazine. He said he was summoned to Yeltsin’s office, where the president told him he had […]

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