Word: confession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks I tortured my investigators by refusing to confess!" sneered the Monkey, thus openly hinting third-degree methods by the Ogpu - and yet Karl Ra dek got away with all his impudence while 13 others got Death...
...Whitney pointed out that this memorandum, written four years before he was elected Exchange president, had been a "confidential report" to the Committee on Stock List. Senator Wheeler was unappeased. Broker Whitney: "I really did quite a bit of work at the Exchange." Senator Wheeler: ''I must confess I am surprised...
There were not placed on the green tables last week any pieces of paper stated to be from the hand of Trotsky. There were just charges and confessions in matching pairs. Confessions. Radek last week confessed that he helped assassinate in Leningrad two years ago Stalin's famed "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934 et seq.), adding: "We decided to kill enough leaders from Stalin down to bring about a coup."Piatakov and Radek joined in confessing they sabotaged the work of Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze, so that Heavy Industry has fallen behind...
...class. Scathingly he asked why the letters he was supposed to have written had not yet been produced in Moscow; he once more offered to produce the whole of his voluminous correspondence to prove that he broke with Radek as far back as 1928; he demanded that prisoners who confess in Moscow that they saw him in Oslo or elsewhere describe the room in which these confessed encounters (which Trotsky denies) took place. He heaped his most biting scorn upon the charges & confessions of Red Romm. Where did Romm say he met Trotsky? In a describable room? No. Romm said...
Lyons turned out in the January American Mercury a dispassionate, detailed six-point analysis of how it happens that in the Soviet Union there is so much abject confessing of whatever it would do the Dictator good to have confessed. Mr. Lyons, veteran of innumerable Moscow trials, says in sum that Soviet prisoners who do not succeed in convincing the henchmen of Justice that they can be depended on to confess fairly convincingly in open court are never brought to trial at all, just taken downstairs and shot. Justice today, in Russian cases of importance, according to Mr. Lyons, does...