Dear and hateful
Mar 25, 2021
4 minutes
Christopher Silvester on Cinema
LAST YEAR, NOT FAR from the Kremlin and the old headquarters of the NKVD on Ostozhenka Street, a restaurant opened called NKVD, featuring reverent Soviet imagery on its walls and on its menus. It was doubly insensitive in that four victims of Soviet terror had lived at the address where the restaurant was located.
Earlier this year, a Moscow kebab shop called Stal’in Doner was closed by state officials after only a week. Its staff had worn NKVD uniforms, greeted customers with the period slogan “Life has become better, life has become happier”, and served up Stalinskaya kebabs that
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