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He was embalmed; people came to visit him.
他的遺體是防腐的，人們都來瞻仰悼念
Petrograd, that is the former St. Petersburg, was renamed Leningrad.
彼得格勒是圣彼得堡的前身，也因此易名為列寧格勒
Over and over Lenin was mourned as leader, teacher, founder of the Soviet Union, and the one true interpreter of the great Karl Marx.
列寧被無數次尊崇為領袖，老師，蘇聯的創立者以及偉大馬克思忠實的闡釋者
Figuratively speaking, if Marx was the creator, surely Lenin fit the profile of the son who established Marx's reign on earth.
打個比方，如果說馬克思是造物主，列寧就是把馬克思的宗教傳播到世界的圣子角色
Complex rituals were devised to honor Lenin, and stupid names were also devised like Ninel,
人們設計了繁復的禮儀來紀念列寧，還設計出了Ninel這樣的名字
which is Lenin spelled backwards—good name for girls or boys.
即把列寧的名字倒著拼，這個名字成為了小孩的好名字
Lenin's icon images appeared everywhere.
列寧的肖像隨處可見
The cult of Lenin's personality also gave a tremendous political opportunity to his humble self-appointed priest, Joseph Stalin.
對列寧的個人崇拜，還給他那謙卑，自詡的信徒，約瑟夫·斯大林以絕佳的政治機會
Lenin had left behind 45 volumes of collected writings
列寧留下了45部個人選集
and Stalin had an unerring knack for digging up just the right quotation to support whatever policy he wanted to pursue.
斯大林有個訣竅，就是在合適的時候通過一字不落地引用列寧的原文來支持自己想推行的政策
His boldest religion came with its own anti-Christ, Leon Trotsky, or as Stalin called him, Judas Trotsky.
他最大膽的宗教來自于反對他政策的人列夫·托洛茨基，或者斯大林說口中的“猶大·托洛茨基”
Trotsky for his part enjoyed the role and played up to it
托洛茨基也很樂意扮演這種角色
until 1940 when one of Stalin's agents caught up with him in Mexico and buried an ice pick in his brain. Ouch!
并一直演到了1940年直到斯大林的間諜在墨西哥把碎冰錐扎入了他的腦袋
