[Yes shoot him he has only been dead 88 years



man armed with a high-powered gas pistol tried to break into Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin's tomb on Red Square in Moscow, shooting a policeman in the process.


The man, named as Sergey Karpentsov, is quoted as saying he wanted to let loose a volley of bullets at Lenin's carefully embalmed corpse, one of the Russian capital's most popular and ghoulish tourist attractions.

"My main demand is the quick bulldozing of the mausoleum which contains the body of the anti-Christ," he said. "I wanted to open fire on the tomb with an assault rifle but I was advised not to do that in case the tomb is armour-plated."

"I have drawn attention to this issue with my actions," he added.

Lenin's waxy presence at the heart of the Russian capital 86 years after his death continues to divide Russian society, with many older people believing he should be left where he is.

Others insist he should be re-buried near his mother in St Petersburg, arguing that it is incongruous for his corpse to remain on Red Square almost two decades after Soviet Communism was rejected.

Police say they spotted Karpentsov behaving strangely near the mausoleum and that he viciously beat a police officer who confronted him before shooting and wounding the man.

Some reports suggested he also planned to mount the famous balcony above the mausoleum, where Soviet leaders reviewed military parades at the height of the Cold war.

Karpentsov is now undergoing a series of tests to ascertain whether he is of sound mind. Police have disclosed that he is a convicted criminal who has been on the run since 2007 for armed assault. He has also reportedly been convicted for rape.

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