Schoolchildren and students forced to lay flowers to Lenin (Photo, video)

Organized groups of young people led by supervisors laid flowers to the monument.

Communists laid flowers to the statue of Lenin in Independence Square in Minsk on occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Socialist revolution. Schoolchildren and university students were forced to attend the event. Nasha Niva readers close to the student community say students were ordered to visit the event in compulsory manner. Organized groups of young people were led by supervisors.