Moscow police detained 25 people on Wednesday who had been planning to stage a protest to demand the removal of a mausoleum containing the embalmed body of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin from Red Square.
Police closed Red Square ahead of the planned protest on the 85th anniversary of the death of Lenin.
"They were trying to hold a rally that the authorities had not allowed," a police spokesman said.
The group had intended to dress up as mummies and demonstrate outside the mausoleum with a cardboard coffin. Media reports described the group as Orthodox monarchists who want Lenin buried as an ordinary person.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
25 arrested for protesting Zombie Lenin.
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