Profane the image by materialization of corporeality (based on the example of the images of V. I. Lenin)
There was a struggle against the sacral images of the past epochs in the crucial historical stages such as the Late Soviet era. It was a process of desacralization. This process could develop in two ways. One of them was to put emphasis on «grotesque realism» (Bakhtin), humorous components and the material bodily lower stratum in the images and the other was to destroy them as bearers of the guilt of the Past. This process was evidence of the residual mythological consciousness in the late Soviet and modern society. Many soviet historical monuments were destroyed for this reason.The author considers theprosesses by the example of images of soviet leader V. I. Lenin.