Russian police raid office where Stalin-era documents stored
December 27th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Another indication that Russian officialdom is sanitising Stalin’s legacy: Police raided the St Petersburg office of the human rights group Memorial and confiscated computer hard drives containing thousands of files with evidence of state-sponsored terror during the Stalin years. Irina Flige, director of Memorial’s office, says the police raid was not an accident or a [...]





