In a small town near Moscow, a man destroyed a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. He also did not stop at a statue of the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin.
Video footage shows the man staggering around the bust of Stalin and hitting it with the hammer. The incident took place in a park in Zveningorod, a small Russian town near Moscow. After damaging the statues, the man fled. Police are looking for him.
Statue erected without permission
The monument to Stalin was built in the summer of 2023 by activists without permission from local authorities. Neighbors protested as a result – but to no avail. The statue remained standing.
Stalin came to power in the late 1920s and turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state. He ordered the execution of hundreds of thousands of people and sent millions more to gulag camps. His memory is controversial in Russia.
Many monuments removed
Vladimir Lenin, whose monument the man also damaged, founded the Soviet Union in 1922 and ushered in socialism in Russia. He sanctioned terror, including the hostage-taking of civilians and members of officers’ families.
The rulers of the former Soviet Union are controversial. Many monuments have been removed, but some Russians continue to revere them – Stalin, for example, for the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
Source: Krone
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