MOSCOW—On a bitterly cold day, amid powerful blasts of wind and snow, a few dozen men gathered on Red Square in this locked down city to celebrate Vladimir Lenin’s 150th birthday. Neither the freakish late-spring storm earlier this month nor the spreading virus stopped the ceremony outside the tomb that holds Lenin’s mummified corpse, and only a few of the old Communists wore masks while laying flowers before their idol.
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Russian Communist party members and supporters walk towards the Mausoleum of the Soviet state founder and revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin to hold a flower-laying ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of his birth on Red Square in Moscow on April 22, 2020, during a strict lockdown in Russia to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
