From the UK Telegraph article on Lavrenty Beria:
Unlike Stalin, who was buried in Lenin’s Mausoleum and later moved to a grave by the Kremlin walls, his body was burnt and his ashes dispersed by a huge fan.
Personally, if I was running that particular garbage disposal detail I would have also brought in a priest to clean up the lingering foul spiritual residue, and Marxism be damned*. Heck, for all I know, they did. Certainly the Russians went back to Orthodox Christianity with remarkable speed… Continue reading Quote of the Day, I Would Have Done The Exact Same Damn Thing edition.