MOSCOW -- A pro-Nazi demonstration by high-school students took place in the heart of Moscow on the birthday of the late Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, unofficial Soviet sources said Monday.
There were no official reports of the demonstration but a Soviet official confirmed he and colleagues had heard unconfirmed accounts of the incident.
Unofficial demonstrations are illegal in the Soviet Union and those that take place are never publicized.
Details were scarce and contradictory on the April 20 demonstration in Pushkin Square, a popular gathering place for lovers and dissidents.
But one source, who claimed to have seen the incident from an office window looking out on the square, said between 10 and 15 youths entered the square in the evening at the time a nearby movie theater let out.
Dressed neatly, with short hair, their only distinguishing feature was a swastika armband. They shouted no slogans and carried no placards.
Mingling with the thousands in the square, it was some minutes before police could reach them and two or three were arrested, the source said.
'Who were they? Why were they arrested?' passersby were asking, according to another source who was in the square.
