Russian governors threaten missile attacks on Ukraine’s ‘big cities’ in a ‘desire to seek revenge’ for the Crimea bridge explosion as top Putin propagandist calls for total war and return to brutal Stalinist-era operations

Top pro-Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov is demanding a brutal Stalinist response to ‘plunge Ukraine into dark times’ and round up all Russians against total war in the wake of the humiliating hit on the Crimean Bridge.

Alluding to an enemy within, Solovyov called for a return of the notorious Stalin-era SMERSH counter-intelligence to crush all internal opposition to a full-scale war against Ukraine.

SMERSH, whose motto was ‘Death to Spies’, was a conglomeration of counterintelligence agencies used by Stalin to root out and obliterate those trying to subvert his regime during and after World War II.