MOSCOW, July 21. An unknown man used a sledgehammer to demolish the head of a bust of Joseph Stalin, located in one of the parks of Zvenigorod in the Moscow region, a law enforcement source said.
““On Saturday, in one of the parks in Zvenigorod, a man in an inadequate state tore off the head of a bust of J.V. Stalin with a sledgehammer. The attacker immediately fled the scene of the crime,” said the agency’s interlocutor.
He clarified 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 chosen as a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking on his own recognizance and proper behavior.