Red SquareRed Square is a dramatic open cobbled space in the centre of
Moscow, originally the city's market place that served as a public
gathering place to celebrate festivals, listen to government
announcements or to witness executions, especially common during
the reign of Ivan the Terrible. The Soviet state turned it into a
memorial cemetery, and constructed Lenin's Mausoleum to one side -
a crystal casket containing the preserved body of the founder of
the Soviet Union that is still open to public viewing today. The communist government destroyed several ancient buildings
around Red Square, including the Resurrection Gate and chapel, to
make space for and to allow easy tank access to the demonstrations
and military parades that frequented the area. The current
Resurrection Gate and chapel are replicas that were built in the
1990s. Its most impressive parade involved the gathering of
thousands of Russian soldiers ready to march to war against the
Nazis in 1941, the rumble of tanks
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