Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. More plausibly than any other book yet written, fiction or nonfiction, it gives the answer to one of history's great riddles: Why do Russians confess...
...Bolshevik Nicolas Rubashov, former People's Commissar, former commander in the Red Army, a fictional composite of the late liquidated Leo Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin, is broken down by the GPU, induced to sign a false confession and declare at a public trial that he had plotted to murder "No. 1"-Stalin. Penalty: "physical liquidation." The men who succeeded in making old Rubashov confess ("To have laid out a Rubashov meant the beginning of a great career") were GPU Inquisitors Ivanov and Gletkin. Ivanov had been Rubashov's former schoolmate, former battalion commander. He drank, he doped...
Have you reported what happened to the murderer of Trotsky? Was there a trial or has the whole matter been suppressed ? I confess to curiosity as to some explanation of the mystery...
...book is doubly interesting because 15 years ago Dr. Niebuhr was himself an outstanding exponent of the liberal credo he now seeks to discredit as opportunism, calling it "a religious accommodation to the prejudices of bourgeois culture." "I confess," he wrote in The Christian Century, "that between Versailles and Munich I underwent a conversion which involved rejection of almost all the liberal theological ideals and ideas with which I first ventured forth. My first book contains almost all the windmills against which today I tilt." In the light of history, especially from 1920 to 1940, he finds liberal optimism about...
...Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly...