Russian activists created a perfume with notes of gunpowder, ash, stale paper and ink to evoke the terror felt by victims of Josef Stalin's purges
MOSCOW - Russian activists have created a perfume with notes of gunpowder and ash to evoke the terror felt by victims of Josef Stalin’s purges, and protest the planned opening of a perfume shop in the building where thousands were sentenced to death.
The sentencing occurred during Stalin’s Great Terror, a series of purges in which the security services killed hundreds of thousands of people on trumped up charges. “He was convicted in this building, sentenced to capital punishment for being in a terrorist, counter-revolutionary organization,” Nesterenko told Reuters. “At that time, the NKVD gave such sentences to anyone.”
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