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Soviet 'NKVD' restaurant name triggers Moscow row
Source: BBC
Soviet 'NKVD' restaurant name triggers Moscow row
13 December 2016 Europe
A Moscow restaurant calling itself "NKVD" - a chilling echo of the Stalin-era communist terror - drew social media protests and the big sign outside has now been taken down.
Restaurant staff told the BBC they did not know who had removed the letters.
The NKVD was the forerunner of the Soviet KGB secret police. In the 1930s and 1940s the NKVD arrested millions of people and many were executed.
The restaurant sports a big portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
[font size=1]A big Stalin portrait hangs inside the restaurant - a piece of Soviet nostalgia[/font]
Stalin's image also featured on the restaurant's menus, but when the BBC visited on Tuesday the barman said the management had told the staff to remove the menus "for now until we get the sign back".
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13 December 2016 Europe
A Moscow restaurant calling itself "NKVD" - a chilling echo of the Stalin-era communist terror - drew social media protests and the big sign outside has now been taken down.
Restaurant staff told the BBC they did not know who had removed the letters.
The NKVD was the forerunner of the Soviet KGB secret police. In the 1930s and 1940s the NKVD arrested millions of people and many were executed.
The restaurant sports a big portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
[font size=1]A big Stalin portrait hangs inside the restaurant - a piece of Soviet nostalgia[/font]
Stalin's image also featured on the restaurant's menus, but when the BBC visited on Tuesday the barman said the management had told the staff to remove the menus "for now until we get the sign back".
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38302972
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