In Rostov-on-Don, a knight sculpture lost its sword-wielding arm. A similar incident occurred earlier in Buryatia.
Sculpture work Sergei Korolkov, made in the late 1930s, depicts a knight successfully fighting a snake, which is meant to symbolize the victory of the Red Army (the knight) over Denikin's troops (the snake).
The monument stood for many years in a fountain on one of the central streets. Rostov.
But recently, as noticed regional newspaper "Hammer"Someone broke off the knight's right hand, which held the sword. And soon all that remained of the knight himself were pebbles in the middle of the fountain.
And not long before that NotMoscow Wrote about what is in the Buryat town Khorinsk The monument to the soldiers was damaged: one of the soldiers lost his arm holding the machine gun.
And no, we're definitely against vandalism. But what if there's some kind of sign in this?