MOSCOW, July 21. An unknown man knocked off the head of a bust of Joseph Stalin located in a park in Zvenigorod in the Moscow region with a sledgehammer, a source in the law enforcement agencies.
«On Saturday, in one of the parks of Zvenigorod, a man in an inadequate state knocked off the head of a bust of I. V. Stalin with a sledgehammer. The offender immediately fled the scene of the crime,» the agency's source said.
He specified that everything happened on Sovetskaya Street during the daytime.
On Sunday evening, the police announced the arrest of a suspect. A criminal case has been opened for vandalism. The defendant was given a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave the country and to behave properly.