"When they forbid a Tatar, especially one of such status as Dzhemilev, to enter Crimea … it's interpreted as the start of bigger repressions".
"Political repressions and restrictions on human rights and freedoms will increase," predicted Nadejda Atayeva, an Uzbek human rights activist who fled to France in 2000.
Yet he has also inherited a deep fear of unleashing the mass repressions and purges which Andropov's generation of leaders agreed to abandon after Stalin's death, in order to preserve themselves.Skilful tactician though he is, Mr Putin does not seem to have a strategy.
The peace did not last: in 1976, GAM was founded and the cycle of uprisings and repressions started again.
These numbers do not, of course, include thousands of citizens killed yearly by the police or militias in government repressions of one kind or another.
The extravagance of the amateurism unmistakably conveys to the accused, and their supporters, that everyone is vulnerable, and that the state doesn't much care how outlandish its pseudo-judicial repressions may appear.
Already gay enough to use the word "camp" circa 1940, Clyde Armie Hammerr) loves more than he is loved in return, thanks to the repressions instilled in Edgar by his ambitious mother (Judi Dench).
Not since the height of Stalinist repressions have so many of the country's best and brightest perished.
And early drafts of the new version of the Soviet period suggest that it will brush over Stalin's repressions, concentrating instead on the "reforms" that the tyrant accomplished.One of the most eloquent voices of protest against this whitewashing has come from the spiritual guardian of a place that, more than almost any other, serves as a perpetual reminder of Stalin's cruelties.
Its past repressions leave a backlog of grievance.
"Enemies of the people" confess because of torture or a desire to protect families (often killed or exiled anyway); but also, sometimes, out of a conviction that conniving in their own deaths will help the Party.Then there is the carnage and heroism of the war and the wartime hopes of a better life, soon extinguished by yet more famine and repressions.
