MOSCOW - A previously unknown revolutionary group, the Red Army of Workers and Peasants (RAWP), yesterday claimed responsibility for blowing up a bronze statue of Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II.
The group said the attack on the "blood stained murderer of workers and peasants" was a warning to those who wanted to bury the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin. The body lies in a granite mausoleum on Red Square, but on March 14th President Yeltsin said it should be interred next to the grave of the Soviet leader's mother in St Petersburg.
