Sons of Freedom, Sunday 7 May 1944
Semi-clad members of the Sons of Freedom, a radical faction of the Doukhobors, in a paddy wagon for protesting the two-year prison sentence given to 18 of their comrades for another nude protest in Nelson a few weeks earlier.
The group prayed and sang hymns in Russian in Stanley Park and then disrobed in front of about 1500 park visitors. Read the full story here.
Source: Photo by Jack Lindsay, City of Vancouver Archives #1184-495
Doukhobors are fascinating, not least of all because naked protests
Love both…but is it just me or does Sharon Needles look uncannily like Kat Dennings!?
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