Word: lubianka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lubianka. When Anders still refused to join the Red Army and to confess to crimes he had never committed, he was taken to Moscow's Lubianka prison. Here he was again submitted to the NKVD treatment-sometimes being wooed with cigarettes and tea, at other times being smashed in the face and kicked...
Anders spent more than a year in Lubianka, much of the time in solitary confinement under an electric lamp so powerful that it nearly made him blind. Then, suddenly, he was summoned before NKVD Chief Lavrenti Beria, who informed him that Germany had attacked Russia, and that Anders had been "elected" commander of all Poles in the U.S.S.R...
Caviar at Home. Without socks, wearing prison pants, and carrying a suitcase that contained only a worn bathing suit (not his), Anders was whirled away from Lubianka in a limousine and ensconced in a luxurious four-room apartment. There he was given two servants and quantities of champagne, cognac and caviar...