Activists Arrested After Dousing Lenin's Tomb With Holy Water

Two performance artists were arrested after pouring holy water on the Red Square tomb of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and shouting “Rise and be gone!”, Russian media reported. The stunt, filmed on Monday and posted on the Internet, was cut short after two men detained the artists, who had passed through barriers cordoning off the red granite mausoleum where Bolshevik revolutionary leader lies embalmed. The video showed them taking water out of a church on Jan. 19, a day when Russian...

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