A group of architects in Russia have abandoned plans to find an alternative use for Lenin’s tomb.
The Union of Architects had launched a competition for ideas, insisting that whatever happened the embalmed corpse of the Soviet leader would stay in his glass coffin.
The results were due to be announced in November, but the union has now pulled the project after being accused of “spitting on the graves of their ancestors” by the head of the Communist Party.
Nikolay Shumankov, the head of the union, said: “There has been so much negativity, everything is so distorted, it’s as if we wanted to demolish the tomb and remove Lenin’s body. I’m fed up of having to justify this.”
