Elderly man beaten up aboard a bus for tearing down a portrait of Stalin
Today in the city of Tobolsk (about 1,400 miles east of Moscow), an old man was beaten up, after he tore down a portrait of Josef Stalin taped to the window of a bus. Police haven't yet commented on the attack, but the company that owns the bus told the local news website Tobolsk.ru that a young passenger attacked an elderly man, allegedly hitting him with crutches, when the older man removed from the windshield a portrait of Stalin.