'Bygone Era': Disappearing Plaques For Stalin Victims

Around 200 of the 1,300 plaques have been taken down by vandals in the past two years (Credit: AFP)

Armed with tape and scissors, Alexei Orlov attached some cardboard on a wall outside a residential building known as the "Writers' House" in Moscow.

The bespectacled history buff was putting up cards honouring the victims of Stalinism to replace the metal plaques that started disappearing.