As speeches were under way, Russian woman Yekaterina Maldon stood amongst the crowd with an anti-Soviet placard and a vodka bottle filled with red liquid. Maldon had the bottle pulled from her hand and was hauled away by members of the crowd as she shouted, “Lenin was a mass killer.”
A life-sized statue of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was unveiled on June 20 in Gelsenkirchen, a former mining town in western Germany by the radical left-wing Marxist-Leninist Party Of Germany (MLPD).
Several hundred people gathered for the ceremony, with scores of police barricading the busy street corner where the monument to the founder of the Soviet Union was revealed.
The statue was initially set to be installed in time for Lenin’s 150th birth anniversary in April, but the coronavirus pandemic delayed the event.
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