Russia’s state atomic energy agency has seen fit to mount two full-sized figures of Lavrenty Beria, one of the most ghoulish villains of the Great Purge, in its latest exhibition. The bizarre move to resurrect the hate figure has shocked Moscow, where every post-Soviet child knows Beria as one of the most feared hangmen of the Stalin era.
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Anna Nemtsova: Stalin’s monsters resurrected in statues, public portraits in Russia
A Russian Communist party supporter waves a red flag with an image of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during a May Day rally in Saint Petersburg on May 1, 2018.
