Late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will join an exclusive club of deceased leaders from around the world who have been preserved for permanent viewing.
A woman reacts to seeing the body of Hugo Chavez. Thousands of Venezuelans lined the streets of Caracas, Wednesday morning as Chavez's remains were taken from the military hospital where he died to the Fuerte Tiuna Military Academy.
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telegraph.co.uk
FILE - Joseph Stalin lies in state on March 12, 1953, in Moscow, Russia.
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guardian.co.uk
The preserved body of Kim Il Sung, considered the founding father of North Korea on display in 1995. It lies under glass in the Kumsusan mausoleum.
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Associated Press
FILE - In this April 16, 1997 file photo, the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, is on display in his tomb on Moscow's Red Square. Lenin is one of several world leaders whose bodies have been preserved and put on perpetual display, as Venezuela's government plans to do with Hugo Chavez.
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Associated Press
In this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, the body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is laid in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kim died on Saturday, Dec. 17.
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Mourners pay their respects to the body of Mao Zedong in China. Mao died in 1976.
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Imelda Marcos beside the glass coffin of her husband, the late Philippines leader Ferdinand Marcos, at Marcos Mausoleum.
- Associated Press
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A woman reacts to seeing the body of Hugo Chavez. Thousands of Venezuelans lined the streets of Caracas, Wednesday morning as Chavez's remains were taken from the military hospital where he died to the Fuerte Tiuna Military Academy.
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telegraph.co.uk
FILE - Joseph Stalin lies in state on March 12, 1953, in Moscow, Russia.
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guardian.co.uk
The preserved body of Kim Il Sung, considered the founding father of North Korea on display in 1995. It lies under glass in the Kumsusan mausoleum.
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Associated Press
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- AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, File
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In this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, the body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is laid in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kim died on Saturday, Dec. 17.
- AP
Mourners pay their respects to the body of Mao Zedong in China. Mao died in 1976.
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freerepublic.com
Imelda Marcos beside the glass coffin of her husband, the late Philippines leader Ferdinand Marcos, at Marcos Mausoleum.
- Associated Press
