A Russian performance artist stripped naked and nailed his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in protest against the Kremlin's crackdown on political rights.
Eye-watering footage shows artist Pyotr Pavlensky sitting naked outside Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow, Russia, before police covered him with a blanket.
The state-run RIA Novosti news agency said Pavlensky was taken to a police station after being treated in a central Moscow clinic.
Here's a link to the stomach-churning video.
For the record, Pavlensky has also sewn his lips shut to protest Pussy Riot's jailing and, in May, he wrapped his naked body in barbed wire outside a St. Petersberg government building. Russia is horrifying.
[H/T: Daily Mail]
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