Russia glosses over Stalin-era repression in reinvented museum
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
19/25
Freshness
24/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
6/15
Depth
6/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
In a Moscow museum that once housed evidence of Stalin-era repression, serene family scenes flickered on a screen as a narrator hailed the tranquillity of pre-World War II life in the Soviet Union. The museum – set up to commemorate the “genocide of the Soviet people” – has elbowed out the award-winning Gulag History Museum, a harrowing collection that had for years cast a light on the killings an