MailOnline explores the dark reality of Russia s prison system and recaps heinous torture methods used by guards and fellow inmates alike to physically and psychologically break their prey.
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Earlier this month, hundreds of people gathered as a Russian Orthodox priest blessed a massive monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the town of Velikiye Luki. Former police officer and historian Andrei Ivanov, whose own relatives were repressed under Stalin, was one of the few to object.
Ukraine has removed Soviet-era signage from a hilltop monument in Kyiv, amid a conflict that has seen the country fight to reassert its cultural identity in the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.