"Lenin's Legacy: The USSR Founder's Fading Influence in Modern Russia"

A century after Lenin's death, the once-omnipresent image of Vladimir Lenin is largely an afterthought in modern Russia, with the Red Square mausoleum drawing far fewer visitors than the Moscow Zoo. The ideology that Lenin championed is now a sideshow in modern Russia, with the Communist Party holding only 16% of the seats in parliament. Despite occasional initiatives to remove Lenin's body from the mausoleum, many Russians still hold strong emotional ties to him, while President Vladimir Putin appears inclined to keep Lenin at arm's length.