After less than a week a Stalin-themed kebab shop has been liquidated by Russian officials.
Staff at the Stal’in Doner in Moscow wore uniforms of the NKVD, forerunner to the KGB. Customers were greeted with the Stalin-era slogan: “Life has become better, life has become happier.” The menu offered a “Stalinskaya” kebab with double serving of meat.
“It’s bigger and richer,” Stanislav Voltman, the owner, told state media. Another kebab was named after Lavrentiy Beria, the feared NKVD chief. Tens of millions of Soviet citizens were executed or imprisoned during Stalin’s three-decade rule but his reputation has been revived since President Putin came to power in 1999.
Calendars and T-shirts featuring Stalin are on sale in central Moscow. But the kebab store appears to
