Before his death 40 years ago, Communist China’s founder requested cremation but officials wanted his body embalmed and put on display – and it wasn’t easy Days after Communist China’s founding father ...
“Mao’s wish – cremation”, ran a headline in the South China Morning Post on September 14, 1976, five days after the death of the Chinese leader. However, the fate of Mao Zedong’s body remained ...
Hugo Chavez is to have the somewhat dubious honour of joining the "controversial embalmed corpses of leaders" club, it was announced on Friday. Some of the world's fiercest dictators and ideological ...
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