<<so the smaller and more airtight the space the faster the process.>>
How does this explain the body of Nickoli Lenin being preserved since the 1920's in Moscow?
taken from a website about embalming:
Soviet strongman V.I. LENIN became an icon after his death, helped along by an unusual effort to preserve his corpse. For decades after his 1924 death, Russians lined up in all weather to view Lenin's body on display in a glass container inside a special mausoleum in Red Square. A triumph of the embalmer's art, the corpse was removed on a regular basis for the special top-secret treatments that kept it looking remarkably lifelike. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, the fate of Lenin's body became something of a puzzle for the new Russian leadership: a embarrassing symbol of the old regime, yet too famous to remove. As the 21st century began, Lenin was still on display in his Red Square resting place.
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Now . . was the embalmer the same guy who did Eva Peron, I seem to recall the Peron imbalmer was an assistant or something for Lenin's corpse???