Russian communists lay flowers at Lenin’s Mausoleum on 102nd anniversary of his death

(21 Jan 2026)
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Moscow, Russia - 21 January 2025
1. Wide of Russian Communists walking in the Red Square with wreaths and flowers
2. Mid of Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov and party members with flowers walking
3. Close up of flowers, pull out Zyuganov and party members walking to Vladimir Lenin mausoleum
4. Zyuganov at the wreath, shaking hands with party members, pull in
5. Wide of Communists walking into the mausoleum
6. Wide of mausoleum
7. Wide of Zyuganov walking to media
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gennady Zyuganov, Russian Communist party leader:
“Now everyone should read Lenin's work on the development of imperialism and understand what will inevitably lead to a new major conflict and war. You can see another imperialist in action. Just a year ago, you wouldn't have imagined that Trump would say, ‘the Western hemisphere is mine, Greenland is ours.’ Canada will also have to obey, and Mexico, and so on. And they would kidnap the leader of a sovereign country, a member of the UN—Venezuela—and lock up Nicolás Maduro and his wife in their prison.”
9. Wide of Zyuganov speaking
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gennady Zyuganov, Russian Communist party leader:
“(Trump) has already declared, there will be a Board of Peace, and I will head it. Whoever contributes a billion dollars will sit on the right side with a decisive vote, those who contribute less will sit on other benches. That's what will happen! And even if they adopt a decision by a majority (of votes) and I don't like it, I will throw that decision out. Here you have a new emperor, a pharaoh; the Roman emperors and Egyptian pharaohs would envy him.”
11. Mid of audience
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gennady Zyuganov, Russian Communist party leader:
“If he (Trump) seizes Venezuela's oil and Greenland, and together with Canada, that will be another forty percent of the Arctic shelf, where the planet's main hydrocarbons are located, then in this century the Arctic Ocean will soon become what the Mediterranean Sea was during the Roman Empire. Then we will understand what this is all about. And his entire Golden Dome system, through Greenland, is aimed at our country.”
13. Wide of wreaths at the mausoleum entrance
14. Wide of mausoleum and the Kremlin
STORYLINE:
Russian Communists laid flowers and wreaths at Lenin’s Mausoleum on Red Square on Wednesday to mark the 102nd anniversary of the Soviet leader’s death.

Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov led the ceremony.

Speaking to gathered media, Zyuganov said that Vladimir Lenin’s work on imperialism has become relevant again in today’s geopolitical climate.

“You can see another imperialist in action. Just a year ago, you wouldn’t have imagined that (U.S. President Donald) Trump would say, ‘The Western Hemisphere is mine, Greenland is ours,’” he said. “And that they would kidnap the leader of a sovereign country, a member of the United Nations—Venezuela—and imprison Nicolás Maduro and his wife."

Zyuganov also compared U.S. President Donald Trump to a Roman emperor and an Egyptian pharaoh.

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