His Body Couldn’t Be Buried in Clothing
Ignatenko’s body had become so swollen and deformed that the clothing for his funeral wouldn’t fit. “They couldn’t get his shoes on him because his feet had swelled up,” his widow, Lyudmila, recounted. “They had to cut up the formalwear, too, because they couldn’t get it on him. There wasn’t a whole body to put it on.”