Word: lubianka
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...profoundly unfair. Through their anger over Iran and Afghanistan, there also runs a thin current of self-pity. It bewilders Americans to be hated. It astonishes them to come off second best in a moral comparison with the Soviet Union, with the keepers of the Gulag and the Lubianka, with the oafish jailers of Eastern Europe...
...Stalinist days, Medvedev would have probably disappeared without a trace behind the walls of Lubianka prison. It is a measure of progress that Medvedev had only to endure obscene absurdities. Committees of psychiatrists tried to discredit his mind with such limp diagnoses as "poor adaptation to the social environment," and "obsessive reformist delusions." Such labels, as the Medvedevs note, could have also been pasted on Marx and Lenin...
Some poem. Some razzberry. In those days-and for a decade to come-people disappeared forever behind the walls of Moscow's Lubianka Prison for much less. Inevitably, Stalin heard about Mandelstam's poem. Yet it was not until 1934 that he had the poet arrested. Even then, it was difficult to do away with a man as acclaimed as Mandelstam. In addition, influential friends put in the good word for him. The result was that Mandelstam was released and exiled with his wife to live as best he could in the provinces. For three years...
...could believe the rumors racing through Moscow's literary under ground last week, the man who wrote those words was himself in a place no worse than hell-the Lubianka prison. "Abram Tertz," the pseudonymous critic of the Soviet system, had for more than six years eluded the Kremlin's wrath while smuggling out satiric manuscripts to be published abroad. These included The Trial Begins (1959), a savage study of Soviet life in the New Class, and Fantastic Stones (1962), a collection which Western critics compared with Kafka and Gogol. Was the man in the Lubianka really Abram...
While Soviet authorities maintain that crime is a bourgeois phenomenon that will wither away under Communism, they have found capital punishment no easier to abolish than the illicit pursuit of capital. The death penalty was dropped in 1947 (not counting secret executions in the cellar of Lubianka Prison, of course), but during the '50s. capital punishment was gradually restored-for murder, treason, espionage and sabotage. Last year, to cope with a rash of get-rich-quick racketeering, the courts were permitted to decree death for counterfeiters, big-time embezzlers of public property and currency speculators. Fortnight ago, Moscow broadened...