In a first, 12,000 people attend a political rally organised in a Minecraft video game lobby

The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) conducted a political rally on a Minecraft server to commemorate Russia’s Labour Day. The event took place on May 1 on an LDPR-themed server, which included a massive bust of the late Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

“The LDPR’s digital rally has grown to be the largest demonstration in the country today. Over 12,000 supporters from all over the world applied to participate in the event!” claimed the party in a statement.

However, it admitted that the rally was cut short due to a server crash caused by an unusually large influx of users.

It was not immediately known how many users attended the event at the same time.

LDPR spokesman Alexander Dyupin said in a Telegram message that the server promptly crashed and could not accommodate more players, according to a translation from Meduza.

A video posted on Twitter by NEXTA shows one view of the rally.