Word: lubianka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Rodin-style statue of Karl Marx, and promised yet another monument-to Stalin's victims. Khrushchev evidently hoped that he had succeeded in laying Stalin's ghost once and for all; that it would no longer roam the Soviet land with a clanking of chains reminiscent of Lubianka prison, or eerie moans recalling the falsely accused thousands who died in Arctic mines and labor camps. Soviet newspapers covered Stalin's move with identical four-line reports buried on the back page...
Their growing friendship was interrupted in 1948 for a typically Russian reason: she was hustled off to Moscow's grim Lubianka Prison and reportedly tortured to get a confession implicating Pasternak. Olga steadfastly refused and was sent to a concentration camp...