A woman uses a face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in Bogota, on March 19, 2020. Colombia will block all international flights from Monday for 30 days, President Ivan Duque announced on Thursday. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)

Lulu, her Playa name, falls into a foam pit as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gather for the 30th annual Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, U.S. September 1, 2016. (Photo by Jim Urquhart/Reuters)

People visit Luke Jerram's “In Memoriam”, a temporary memorial artwork for all those who lost their lives due to COVID-19, in Seaton Carew Park, Hartlepool, Britain on August 20, 2021. (Photo by Lee Smith/Reuters)

Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina (L) checks on France's Alize Cornet after resulting injured during their women's singles tennis match on the fourth day of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 6, 2023. (Photo by Glyn Kirk/AFP Photo)

Photo: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870 – 1924) lying in state in the Kremlin. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1924

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Something quite intriguing is happening within Russian-speaking internet during the last few – should you type a fully academic inquiry (at least, according to Russian academic requirements) in national search engines for "Lenin's mausoleum" – the first thing you get (even in top 10 searches) is website pages talking about black magic and occult. Website authors view this construction differently, but unconditionally agree on one thing: the mausoleum of the "leader of the world proletariat” – the essence of a magical artifact, a sort of “energy vampire”. It was built with a certain purpose: to drain the energy out of miserable Soviet citizens on one hand; and to poison the anthroposphere of one-sixth part of the earth with its vibes (the exact territory that was occupied by the former Soviet Union), depriving the Russian people of will to resist on the other hand. Complete nonsense? No doubt. Nevertheless, an intriguing one. Well, probably because some oddities do exist in mausoleum's history. These oddities are the thing we are going to discuss this time. First, let me refresh you memory on the subject.

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A couple dances a tango in front of Saint Peter's basilica at the Vatican, December 17, 2014. At the rear edge of the square more than 2,000 people, who came to Rome from all over Italy for the 78th birthday of Pope Francis, danced in “A tango for Pope Francis” event as music blared. (Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters)