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Loyal to the House of Lenin
Danish youth staged a small revolution
Yesterday morning, Danish police arrested over 30 people protesting against the liquidation of the Youth House in Copenhagen. Young people threw stones at the police and burned barricades made from garbage cans. But the pogroms began to decline. Police spokesman Lars Borg said: “We are happy that the situation is under police control. The demonstrators realized that pogroms were not the answer."The unrest began on Thursday when police began evicting residents of the so-called Youth Home, built in 1897. At various times it served as a theater, a center for trade union and party conferences, in which Vladimir Lenin even once participated. In our time, hippies and representatives of leftist movements organized a commune here. In the early 80s, as part of a social project, the state provided this house to young people who wanted to live independently. But six years ago, the building was bought by one of the religious organizations, and back in 2006, after a court decision, the commune had to be evacuated. But now the young people refused to comply with the decision of the city court and resisted the police.
The unrest culminated in a pogrom in the captured school and gymnasium buildings in the center of the Danish capital, where computers were smashed and libraries destroyed. Young people managed to seize the building of the Social Democratic Party of Denmark, from where police drove them out on Saturday using tear gas. During three days of street riots, 643 people were detained, among whom were 140 foreigners from Germany, Norway, Sweden and the United States. These were the most violent street clashes since May 1993, when law enforcement officers opened fire on demonstrators protesting against a referendum on Denmark's accession to the European Union.