An unknown man wielding a sledgehammer has decapitated a statue honoring Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in a city near Moscow, Russian state media reported.
Video taken in the city of Zvenigorod showed the suspect staggering around the statue before knocking its head off in what appeared to be one swoop and walking away.
“On Saturday, in one of Zvenigorod’s parks, a man in an unwell state knocked the head off the bust of Joseph Stalin with a sledgehammer,” a law enforcement source told the state-run RIA news agency.
The man also damaged a bust of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin before immediately fleeing the scene of the crime, local media reported.
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