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Some of the facts in this book have already been revealed in ex-Communist confessionals like Benjamin Gitlow's I Confess (TIME, Jan. 22, 1940). Many were dug up by the Dies Committee. The Red Decade synchronizes them and for the first time brings them into orderly perspective...
...black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer to grimmer, notorious Moabit prison, a Gestapo man told him: "You will sit until you confess. You will soften up. You'll be soft as butter...
...handed me over to his Chinese muscle-men-picked for their great size and strength-and told me that I must confess that night. . . . The strong-arm men removed me to the torture room, and the inquisition-which was to last all night-began. First I was beaten repeatedly about the head and this was followed by 50 lashes with a whip. . . . Then I was flattened on my back, my head was jerked back and water was poured into my nostrils. . . . Next they strapped me into the 'tiger's chair'-an ordinary chair anchored to the floor...
...their own. Besides, they had attacked many airfields, power stations, railways, bridges. This day was as fair as a day in June can be, and so the sky-sweeps expected to run into plenty of fight. But when they flew back to their bases, they had to confess that for the first time during the sweeps they had not shot down a single "schmitter"-for the simple reason that not a single one had come up to talk bullets...
...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...