In Russia the memory of the abuses of the KGB runs deep.
From Meduza
On October 29, Moscow holds its annual “Returning the Names” commemoration at the Solovetsky Stone in Lubyanka Square, across from what used to be the KGB’s headquarters. The monument itself is made up of a large stone from the Solovetsky Islands, from the Solovki Gulag prison camp. Throughout the day, people come to remember and read aloud the names of victims in the Soviet Great Terror.
Such memories may be why, Russians inside the Putin government leaked the story that “Petrov and Boshirov” suspected poisoners of turncoat spy Sergey Skripal, were actually decorated GRU agents
Source: In annual commemoration, Muscovites remember the names of Great Terror victims — Meduza
