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M. Gessen: “It’s called state terror.”

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Comparing current, seemingly random brutality deployed by federal agents in Minneapolis and St.Paul with repression and terror of regimes in history: Soviet KGB terror, for example, was fundamentally random. “A regime based on terror … deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it.”

Whitewashed: Church Mural Of Soviet Military Defeat Painted Over By Belarusian Authorities

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Whitewashed: Church Mural Of Soviet Military Defeat Painted Over By Belarusian Authorities In late 2022, a report on Belarus’s state-funded media singled out the mural in the Soly church, accusing it of “inciting national and religious hatred.” The report also claimed priests of the church “do not care about saving souls, but about returning western … Read more