An explosion in the early hours of Wednesday morning left a bronze statue of Lenin with a gaping hole (around a meter in size) in his rear. The statue is outside Finland Station in St Petersburg and marks Lenin's return from exile in April 1917. It is one of Russia's most famous monuments. The Telegraph chooses to blame Russia's "anarchist community" for the attack on Lenin, although admits that no group has actually claimed responsibility. Whoever perpetrated the attack may well have done so as an April Fools' day joke. Since the bottomless statue is now deemed structurally unsound, Lenin will have to be removed from his plinth for the first time since the 1920s.
Sunday, 5 April 2009
Bomb blast leaves gaping hole in Lenin's rear
An explosion in the early hours of Wednesday morning left a bronze statue of Lenin with a gaping hole (around a meter in size) in his rear. The statue is outside Finland Station in St Petersburg and marks Lenin's return from exile in April 1917. It is one of Russia's most famous monuments. The Telegraph chooses to blame Russia's "anarchist community" for the attack on Lenin, although admits that no group has actually claimed responsibility. Whoever perpetrated the attack may well have done so as an April Fools' day joke. Since the bottomless statue is now deemed structurally unsound, Lenin will have to be removed from his plinth for the first time since the 1920s.
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Haha our Anarchoist comrades in Russia didn't even know about it until we said
I'd look towards the fash *shifty eyes*
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