Russians encouraged to inform on each other as Putin regime fuels fear and paranoia
Roman Romanov, director of the Gulag History Museum in Moscow, pictured in 2021 standing by a map of Russia marked with the locations of former prison camps. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin’s rule were routinely crushed by police violence, civil society groups were branded as “foreign agents” and opposition figures were demonised by the state and sometimes attacked, as whennearly died in a poisoning by the Federal Security Service in 2020.
The trigger for the move may have been a “remembrance prayer” event that the museum held last month on the day when Russia officially honours its victims of political repression, even though Moscow had refused to allow public gatherings. Since Putin launched a full-scale war against pro-western Ukraine, public criticism of his regime has in effect been outlawed and anything seen as besmirching Soviet glory is regarded as unpatriotic and potentially treasonous.
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