The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, commonly known as the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, is the final resting place of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death in 1976.[1]
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The Mausoleum of Mao Zedong is featured in Take Me to Your Leader.
It was introduced in 1 week after people when mankind's leaders remain embalmed and entombed around the world, but for one great communist leader, the recipe for immortality was a botched job like Chinese chairman Mao Zedong. Few dared to oppose him, whose policies and executive orders are believed to have killed up to 70 million people and on September 9, 1976, he died at the age of 82 but despite Mao's last wishes by calling for his body to be cremated, officials debated over what to do with his corpse. Dr. Howard Oliver stated that Mao's body would lay in state for a couple of weeks before they started to preserve it. Embalming was rare in China in the 1970's and so the scientists charged with preserving Mao's corpse for austerity had to first do some research. Dr. Howard Oliver stated that one of the things that scientists read is that if one embalm the body with a large amount of formaldehyde solution, it would preserve the body indefinitely or so they thought specifically 16 liters of fluid into the system but they went a little further and infused 22 liters of fluid into the system causing a complete disaster. The mistake caused bloating and extensive skin damage but somehow they were able to create a presentable corpse that could be viewed for decades in a court sarcophagus in Tiananmen Square. Dr. Howard Oliver stated that the Chinese bring the body up from the basement every day for a few hours but no more than 4 hours and sometimes they don't bring the body up at all.
In 30 years after people, Mao Zedong remains surprisingly intact in his court sarcophagus and despite none of the environment control system operation, Mao's body should have long ago decomposed. Dr. Howard Oliver stated that the Chinese botched the job of infusing the formaldehyde which lead to problems later and no matter what they do, they've created a huge problem which they can't recover because the body has to deteriorate and no way that it won't deteriorate. The reason why the human form would still be visible after all the years is because some believe that the body isn't Mao at all. Dr. Howard Oliver stated that one of the things they did was to create a wax figure of Mao Zedong and it looked more of him than his actual body. If it was the case, the body on display in Beijing is destined to crack and warp rather than decay.