This report in from Minsk, Belerus.

Associated  Press

Mon Aug 10, 12:43 pm ET

MINSK, Belarus ? Belarusian officials says that a massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man who was hanging from it, killing him on the spot.

The Emergency Situations
ministry said Monday that the 21-year-old man was drunk when he climbed
onto the five-meter (16-feet)-high plaster monument early Monday and
hung from its arm. It then broke into pieces and he was crushed.

The statue in the southeastern Belarus town of Uvarovichi was built in 1939.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is a staunch admirer of the Soviet Union, and the nation still has numerous Soviet-era monuments to the revolutionary leader.

Thanks to John Moser at the Ashbrook Center blog No Left Turns