‘return to the days of Stalin’: Armed Russian police raid homes of anti-Putin activists in huge crackdown
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:33 PM EST
Armed Russian police today raided the homes of anti-Putin activists today ahead of a mass demonstration in a major new crackdown on dissent.
The fresh wave of arrests was today compared with the days of Stalin by opponents on Russian language Twitter.
Hello1937 was trending on the social networking site – referring to the year 1937 which was seen as the worst for Stalin purges.
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