Unidentified attackers have blown up a statue of Lenin in a suburb of Russia's second largest city of Saint Petersburg in the second such attack in the past two years, police said.The bronze statue of the Bolshevik leader in the suburb of Pushkin "was seriously damaged by the explosion, especially the base of the statue", a police spokesman said.
The explosion late on Monday night (local time) shattered the windows of a building opposite the statue but did not injure anyone.
Lenin statues are still numerous, especially in small towns, but are gradually falling into disrepair. Some have been targeted in apparent protests.
In April 2009 attackers blew a large hole in the buttocks of a Lenin statue that stands outside Saint Petersburg's Finland station, where Lenin arrived back in Russia just before the 1917 revolution and gave a famous speech.
| It would be a shame to waste the one opportunity I ever get to mention Lenin's buttock shrapnel. |