Word: lefortovo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corps, the delays in salary payments and an overall sense that Russia has been humbled have created powerful anti-Yeltsin sentiments. "Six years ago, I was ready to genuflect before Yeltsin," said the colonel. "Now I would just love to lock him in handcuffs and drag him off to Lefortovo prison. If I could...
Officials took the children to her mother's apartment and brought her to Moscow's Lefortovo prison for interrogation. The KGB questioned her repeatedly. During the next two years, as KGB counterintelligence officers investigated the case, she was allowed to see her husband only four times. The last time she brought her son with her, knowing Martynov had been sentenced to death. He was executed by a firing squad on May 28, 1987. He was 41 years...
After being interrogated about a hundred times at Lefortovo prison, always under bright lights, Potashov was sentenced to 13 years and shipped east to the notorious Perm-35 prison camp in the Urals. "After Lefortovo," he said, "there was a 17-day trip in a cage with 15 murderers, all with TB. In Perm I was a transport worker hauling 500 lbs. of metal parts in a handcart. I had to push the cart, and my right shoulder joint broke." Potashov and the other prisoners worked 10 hours a day, six days a week. Although only 37, Potashov aged rapidly...