How and why did they attempt to kill the mummy of the leader of the world revolution, Lenin

Political leaders are often targeted for assassination attempts. The recognized leader in their number was and remains  Fidel Castro. But among the dead leaders, V. I. Lenin can be considered the absolute record holder, whose body in the Mausoleum has been the target of terrorists and just crazy people many times. We will tell you about the loudest encroachments on the body of the leader of the world proletariat.

The mausoleum with the body of V. I. Lenin has been located on Moscow's Red Square for almost a century. This facility is surrounded by a halo of secrecy and is carefully guarded. Despite this, all kinds of sabotage and acts of vandalism have been taking place in the tomb of the leader for a hundred years. It seems strange, because a dead body can't do anything bad to anyone. But at the same time, there were enough people willing to settle accounts with the deceased Ilyich at all times.

The first officially registered attempt on Lenin's body took place on March 19, 1934. A resident of Ukraine Mitrofan Nikitin carried a pistol into the Mausoleum. The unusual behavior of the visitor was noticed by the security of the facility. The security services quickly reacted to Mitrofan's actions, but he still managed to shoot twice. Not a single bullet hit the leader. During the fight with the chekists, Nikitin managed to shoot himself in the heart and did not miss.

During the investigation, it turned out that Nikitin had recently got a job at the Progress state farm near Moscow. Apparently, he needed it for legalization in the capital. A note was found in the pocket of the murdered man, from which it became clear that he was an ardent counter-revolutionary. Mitrofan was indignant that the country was rolling into the abyss with the Bolsheviks and called for a fight against the regime.

After that, no one touched Lenin for more than 20 years. Or simply there is no information about attempts in the public domain for this period of time. The next incident took place in 1957. Then Lenin was lying in the Mausoleum in the company of Stalin, and therefore it is not known exactly which of the leaders was the target. A certain citizen Romanov made his way to a place sacred to every Soviet person. He had only a bottle of ink in his pocket, but he didn't have time to use it either.

Another attack on the relic took place in 1959. Then one of the visitors of the Mausoleum grabbed a hammer from under his clothes and began to strike at the glass sarcophagus. The terrorist was detained, but history has not preserved his name and motives. It is only known that he was declared insane and placed in a psychiatric clinic.

After that, the enemies became more frequent. Exactly a year later, in 1960, a resident of Uzbekistan Minibayev jumped on the fence and broke the glass of the sarcophagus with his feet. At the first interrogation, the attacker admitted that he had been planning his attack on the leader for many years. He was also declared insane and sent for compulsory treatment. After this attack, they were closed for visits for several months. The tomb was equipped with special high-strength glass.

Already in 1962, the pensioner Lyutikov from Sergiev Posad checked the new protection. He threw a stone at the glass. Like many other terrorists, he admitted that he had been preparing an attack on the leader for several years. It also turned out that Lyutikov repeatedly sent letters to foreign media discrediting the Soviet government.

On March 29, 1966, an emergency occurred in the Mausoleum again and again a pensioner became the culprit. Citizen Vatintsev from Krasnodar carried a sledgehammer under his cloak and deftly threw it into the glass of the sarcophagus. The gun bounced off the coating without harming him. Buttercups and Vatintsev were traditionally recognized as incapacitated and went to a madhouse.

But in 1967, a real terrorist attack took place at the Mausoleum. A resident of Lithuania Krysanov in a "suicide belt" tried to break through to the body of the leader. The guards tried to detain a suspicious visitor at the entrance, where the explosion sounded. As a result, several people in the queue were killed and many were injured. The suicide bomber himself, of course, also died.

Another suicide bomber came to the Mausoleum on September 1, 1973. It was a Day of Knowledge and several groups of schoolchildren came to the body of the leader. The suicide bomber was let inside with the children, mistaking him for a teacher. The terrorist approached the sarcophagus and activated his bomb.

The glass shell made on conscience withstood the explosion, but a married couple from Astrakhan died at the same time. Several schoolchildren were also injured. The identity of the terrorist could not be established, because the bomb literally tore him to shreds.

After the collapse of the Union, attempts on the leader's body did not stop. There were even a few funny ones among them. In March 2010, Sergei Karpetsov, a 33-year-old resident of the Moscow region, entered the podium of the Mausoleum and began broadcasting from there. The man called on the Russian authorities to turn over the page of history and bury Lenin's body. When they tried to remove the speaker from the podium, he pulled out a traumatic pistol and shot at the law enforcement officer.

In the winter of 2015, members of the art group "Blue Rider" took up Lenin. No, they didn't try to destroy the body and didn't even try to damage anything. It was the most original attack.  The artists decided to force Lenin... to leave the Mausoleum on his own.

To do this, they sprinkled the Red Square and the walls of the tomb with holy water. They shouted "Get up and leave", which amused the audience a lot. By and large, it was not even an attempt, but a PR campaign. Lenin eventually did not get up, and the activists went to the police, where they were issued fines for hooliganism.

The last strange attempt took place in March 2019. Then a nervous man appeared at the Mausoleum, who, shouting spells, began to irrigate the paving stones at the entrance with olive oil. After the arrest, the strange guy said that he wanted to revive Ilyich, and inner voices suggested the way to him. This time, the violator was not even detained. He was issued a protocol on violation of public order on the spot and immediately released.

There were absolutely curious cases at the Mausoleum. In 1997, an inebriated resident of Moscow argued with friends that he would drive a car straight to Lenin. He won the bet, although his car could not enter the doorway and got stuck at the entrance. This is how Moscow journalists describe this case:

Nothing is known about the further fate of the dashing citizen K.. It is quite possible that in the 90s he got off with a fine and strict suggestion.