MIass, Russia, September 23, 2020
Photo: newsmiass.ru Residents of the city of Miass on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains were surprised to find a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the city park doused with red blood on the morning of September 18.
“The figure of the leader of the world proletariat seems to have come out of a horror film” writes newsmiass.ru.
The mouth and clothes on the statue were smeared with red paint, and on the pedestal of the monument to Lenin, a man responsible for killing millions of his own people, the word “Killer” was written. Presumably, red paint was used to symbolize blood.
Police soon arrived on the scene and began an investigation, and city employees have cleaned the statue.
The same statue was a target in March 2015, when a young man put tires around the head of the statue and set them on fire, causing the statue to crack in several places.
In May 2018, a statue of Lenin was replaced with a statue of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Odessa Province in Ukraine.
