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During the communist period in the Soviet Union, which lasted from 1922 to 1991, the national political system was structured around a supposed equality between the people and their representatives in the government. Thus, the people considered the politicians as "comrades", and saw them as tremendously superior figures from power, but equal in their condition as people of the people. At the time of his death in 1953, Stalin was one of the nation's greatest political figures, and the people recognized him by embalming his body and placing him alongside another great figure of communism, Lenin, in a mausoleum specially dedicated to them.