列寧的遺體已展出超過90年 Lenin's body has been on display for more than 90 years

Russia's government has announced it willspend up to 13m roubles ($200,000; ￡140,000) this yearon preserving Vladimir Lenin's embalmed body.

俄羅斯政府宣佈,本年度將花費多達1300萬盧布(合20萬美元; 14萬英鎊), 用於保存列寧經過防腐處理的遺體.

The amount, published in a notice on theState Procurement Agency website, will be used to keep the late leader'sremains in what the RBK News website calls a "lifelike condition".

政府採辦局網站一則通告中公佈的這筆款項, 將用於保存這位已故領導人的遺體, 使其處於RBK新聞網站所稱的“栩栩如生的狀態”.

The notice says the work requiRed is of a"biomedical nature", that the federal budget will foot the bill. Alaboratory currently called the Russian Biomedical Technology Research andTraining Centre has carried out all repairs to Lenin's body since it was firstput on public display in Moscow's Red Square in 1924.

該通告說, 所需進行的修復工作具有“生物醫學性質”, 將由聯邦預算買單. 自1924年列寧遺體首次在莫斯科紅場公開展示以來, 目前稱爲 “俄羅斯生物醫學技術研究培訓中心”的實驗室就承擔了遺體的所有修復工作.

In the post-Soviet years there have beenmany calls for Lenin to be buried rather than kept on public display in hisglass coffin. A recent online poll of more than 8,000 Russians found that 62%were in favour of giving him a proper burial, although the idea has previouslybeen dismissed by the Kremlin.

蘇聯解體後的這些年, 許多人呼籲埋葬列寧,而不是放在水晶棺材裏供人瞻仰. 最近一項由超過8千俄羅斯人蔘與的網上調查發現, 62%的人贊成給他一個體面的葬禮, 雖說此前克里姆林宮對這個主意不予理會.

News of Lenin's maintenance budget hasn'tgone down well among social media users. On the Komsomolskaya Pravda websitesome deplore the cost of keeping a "mummy" on display, while otherscomplain that Lenin himself would have opposed being treated as an "idol" person sardonically suggests that the Communists hope to clone theBolshevik leader if they ever return to power, and another says that if they'regoing to bury Lenin they should first dig up post-Soviet President BorisYeltsin.

列寧遺體保養預算的消息在社交媒體用戶中沒有受到歡迎. 在《共青團真理報》網站上, 有些人痛惜保持一具“木乃伊”展出的費用, 而另外一些人抱怨說,列寧本人也會反對被當作“偶像”. 有個人譏諷道,如果共產主義者能再度執政, 他們希望克隆這位布爾什維克領導人, 另一個人則說,如果他們要下葬列寧,就應當先把後蘇聯時代的葉利欽總統挖出來.