Word: lubianka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where was Beria sitting? Said Gilmore: "Unless the formula has been changed, Beria, high chieftain of the Soviet secret police, sits in one of his own cells in Lubianka prison . . . Oddly enough, that is where Mr. Beria has his own office. I have seen him entering and leaving many times. He would get out of his black car and, with policemen on either side and others leading the way and bringing up the rear, disappear into the depths of the place." Where were Beria's bodyguards on June 27? Was he indeed still alive? What was the meaning...
Yagoda, showpiece at a great public trial, confessed (after due treatment in Lubianka) that he had planned a "palace coup," but denied that he was an imperialist spy. In court he cracked: "If I had been a spy, dozens of countries could have closed down their intelligence services-there would have been no need for them to have maintained such a mass of spies." He was executed, and replaced by Nikolai Yezhov, a madman who carried on the slaughter to the point where millions of Russians were dead or jailed. Yezhov, often styled "the beloved pupil of our leader...
...idea was to escape. In 1944, he managed to get as far as Teheran, and thought he was safe. An informer tipped off the Russians, and one day the NKVD closed in, kidnaped him and hauled him back across the frontier. For a time he was shut up in Lubianka prison and put through various physical and psychological "persuasions" to sign a phony confession of spying for the British and Americans. He refused, and then began four years of prison camps in Siberia and Turkestan. His brief descriptions of Lubianka, the slave camps and the tortures that were devised...
...hero. The U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, which was employing him, apparently saw Dr. Schreiber much as he saw himself. Its officers applauded heartily after Schreiber had finished describing his capture by the Russians (in Berlin, 1945), his four months of third degree in Moscow's Lubianka Prison, his two years of Soviet indoctrination and his escape to the U.S. zone of Berlin...
...ostensibly to discuss future Polish-Russian relations and the security of the Red army then fighting in Poland. Actually, the Russians had laid plans to smear the Polish underground, stifle its "uncooperative" patriots, and set up their own puppet regime. Promptly on arrival, the 16 delegates were clapped into Lubianka to be "interrogated." The charge: that they had conspired with the Germans against the Red army and the Soviet Union. Neither drugs nor storybook tortures were used, yet 14 out of the 15 who stood trial (one was too ill) "confessed" their "guilt." The story of the lone exception, Stypulkowski...