On Tuesday morning, many Muscovites arrived at their metro stations to find them looking radically different. Overnight, innumerable small kiosks had been torn down in a crackdown on structures local government claimed to be lacking building permits.

Soon, social media was full of eyewitness reports, as well as other posts that give you an idea of the scale and size of last night's events.

1. This video, which gives you a good idea of the manpower involved in the crackdown, as well as the kind of kiosks and stalls that were affected.

2. This map which, according to Moslenta, shows the buildings and structures that have been torn down in what the website calls the "Night of Long Shovels." You can move your cursor over the image to read details for each individual entry, or find out more here.

3. This image from the morning after. Photographer Tatiana Rodionova has posted several images of the aftermath near the Sokol metro station, and the hashtags she has used speak for themselves. They include #moscow, #demolition, #apocalpyse and a laconic "Moscow wasn't built in a day," accompanied by the emoji equivalent of Edvard Munch's "The Scream."

4. This Facebook user, who shared a three-minute video showing the sheer manpower and machinery involved. The caption reads: "Two police buses, four excavators, 15 other vehicles, two stalls demolished. Sobyanin's cronies have 'allocated' 30 billion rubles — in one night."

5. This cartoon, which has both Russian President Putin and Prime Minister Medvedev giving speeches on the issue of small businesses and how to help them. Then, in juxtaposition, we see an excavator tearing down a building with shop signs saying "Hairdresser" and "Bakery."