Word: lyubyanka
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...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 they were met by representatives of Minister for Religious Affairs G. G. Karpov; a limousine whisked them straight to the Hotel Savoy (around the corner from the recently reconditioned Lyubyanka-headquarters of the Secret Police...