Alexei Yurchak Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Alexei Yurchak Every one-and-a-half to two-years, these bodies are re-embalmed by the Moscow scientists. Alexei Yurchak science The original embalming and the regular re-embalmings have always been conducted by the scientists of the Moscow lab, over the years they trained local scientists in some techniques, but not all, maintaining the core of the know-how secret. Alexei Yurchak science Today this original meaning of these bodies has changed – in Vietnam the body of Ho today stands for anti-colonial struggles for independence and even for new nationalism, much more than for communism, in North Korea the two Kims' bodies stand for a self-sufficient country organized around one leader and existing in the face of the 'imperialist surroundings.'. Alexei Yurchak science
