Russian Protester Reveals Why He Nailed His Testicles To The Floor!

A PROTEST artist who nailed his scrotum to the floor in Moscow revealed that he based the act on a story a fellow prisoner once told him.

Pyotr Pavlensky was naked when the police found him in Moscow's Red Square nailed to the icy cobbles in November 2013. Officers were about to escort the Russian away when they realised he could not be moved. The self-styled performer, who took part in the protest against the oppression of Russian society, sat as dozens watched. He was later safely pulled free by experts and treated in hospital before spending a night in a police cell.And now the 29-year-old has finally revealed he did the act based on protests led by Gulag prisoners. A man in prison told him that Gulag prisoners who were kept in terrible conditions would nail their scrotums to trees to protest. Mr Pavlensky told the Guardian: "I didn't think much of it at first but then, when I began thinking that the whole country is becoming a prison system, that Russia is turning into a big prison and a police state, it seemed perfect."

He was told that by getting a piercing first the nail could be safely entered into the hole. But Mr Pavlensky told the paper that he did not even use the pierced hole: "I was careful not to rupture a vein but it was very bloody and sore. "They wanted to give me antibiotics and other medications, but I refused." Mr Pavlensky had previously sewed up his lips in a protest against freedom of speech. He had also wrapped himself in barbed wire to Talking about the wire stunt, he said: "People are inside this wire, which torments them, stops them from moving, and they feel pain from every movement.

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