MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian activists have created a perfume with notes of gunpowder and ash to evoke the terror felt by victims of Josef Stalin's purges, and protest the planned opening of a perfume shop in the building where thousands were sentenced to death.
Just 500 metres from the Kremlin, in house number 23 on Moscow's Nikolskaya Street, 31,456 people were handed death sentences between 1937-8, then executed elsewhere, according to the city's Gulag History Museum.
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