Word: lubianka
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...first, Leoni was shifted from prison to prison: 2½ months in the notorious Lubianka, 3½ months in Lefortovskaya Prison, and then 35 days in Butyrka, in Moscow. All this time was taken up in "investigation." Finally, after seven months, "I was taken one morning before an official who, never looking me in the face, informed me that I had been tried without my knowledge and had been condemned to ten years of forced labor 'For espionage on behalf of the Vatican and anti-Communist propaganda...
...Driberg point out just one difference between the program of his party and that outlined 105 years ago by Marx in the Communist Manifesto . . . We are assured British Socialism, when it gets really in the saddle, will be Christian and very, very British-the collective state without the Lubianka. Really...
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...