VIDEO: Activist Who Called Stalin a Tyrant and Murderer Arrested in Moscow

In Moscow, the capital of Russia, activists Evgeny Suchkov and Olga Savchenko from the "Decommunization" movement were arrested today after throwing flowers at a monument of Joseph Stalin, reported the Russian television channel Dozhd.

In a widely circulated video, Suchkov approaches the statue, throws flowers towards it, and shouts, "Burn in hell, tyrant of nations, murderer and child killer!"

The police apprehended them for petty hooliganism but later released them after some time.