Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum

This guide to Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum traces what happened after the Vietnamese leader's death on September 2, 1969, and the last testament in which he asked to be cremated and scattered across three regions of the country. You'll hear how Soviet specialists who preserved Lenin were called in instead, and what it took between 1969 and 1975 to build the granite hall you now file past. Every year the hall closes for weeks while his face is tended, some say in Moscow still.