Word: lyubyanka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest, "Andrassy ut 60," an address usually spoken in whispers, means what "Lyubyanka" means in Moscow: it is th.e headquarters of the Communist secret police. Boss of Andrassy ut 60 was Peter Gabor, onetime tailor's apprentice, who became a journeyman Communist and got his final training in Moscow. Gabor reached the zenith of his career at the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty, where he produced evidence supposedly showing the cardinal's connection with U.S. diplomats. Under Gabor's regime, Andrassy ut 60, whose windowboxes were always bright with geraniums, became dreaded for merciless beatings and torture...
...Chinese padded gown, a box of vitamin pills, three handkerchiefs, and followed her captors. "My mind raced madly . . . What, what, what had I done? Why, everybody liked me here! At the last diplomatic reception, Mme. Molotov had shown me a special favor . . . We turned . . . into the inner court of Lyubyanka prison . . . 'How,' I gasped, 'shall I ever get out of here...
...Prison Is a Prison." Beria, of course, has an office in the Kremlin; but he does most of his work in Lyubyanka Prison,* not very far from the tomb of Lenin, who said he would make a state without crime, police or prisons. In the old hopeful days it was called the "Soviet Home for Those Who Have Lost Their Freedom." These days, it is frankly known as Lyubyanka Prison, for, as an eminent Soviet journal wrote in a campaign against squeamishness: "A prison is a prison." On his rare public appearances with other Soviet big shots, Beria usually seeks...
...Moscow woman was aroused from her sleep one night by two strangers, kept four months in Lyubyanka Prison, sent to a labor camp In Khazakstan by cattle car, kept there for four years, brought back to Moscow and released without hearing, trial or explanation. An American was with her when she met an old friend in a Moscow street. He described the scene which followed: "Plainly, the friend thought she had encountered a ghost. There was a brief glow of happiness on the faces of the two women, then they fell into a humdrum conversation about the weather...
...Lyubyanka is no longer a really tough prison. Anyone taken there instead of, say, Lefortovo on the outskirts of Moscow considers himself lucky. Citizens of a police state quickly acquire such vital information, as citizens of free countries know about good or bad hotels...