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There was method in the sentences, concludes Author Buber. "Apart from security measures against. .. elements which are supposed to be socially unreliable, the GPU [NKVD] is a great slave trust. Wherever labor is needed, the GPU sends its prisoners . . . Clearly, under such circumstances the GPU is not sparing in its arrests...
...behind barbed wire that led up to that first moment of freedom. Taken separately, Part I ("Soviet Concentration Camp, Karaganda") and Part II ("Nazi Concentration Camp, Ravensbrück") will be familiar reading to those who have conscientiously suffered through the tales of terror told by other survivors of NKVD or Gestapo imprisonment. Taken together, the two parts balance the scales in a deadly parallel never before made by a victim of both regimes. Author Buber's conclusion: there was little to choose between them...
...West that the Soviet Union could develop in peace and build up Socialism?" Booted out of his high party post, Neumann was assigned to a round of minor party chores. So was his wife. Both wound up working as translators in Moscow, and there, one day in 1937, the NKVD arrested Comrade Neumann. His wife never saw him again.* A year later, the NKVD came...
...department of cloaks and daggers, the HYRC, like the NKVD and OGPU, stops at nothing. The latest trick in its Saturday-thriller series was a wire recorder concealed under a pile of innocent, if dirty, laundry. The "embarrassing conversation" secretly recorded in an Eliot House room became a key item in the Young Republicans' intramural politics...
...quite a party. It lasted from 8:30 that evening until 2:30 a.m., with a fagged and humorless Molotov patiently enduring the humor of the other two. When Churchill, with a twinkle, accused Molotov of delaying his return from the U.S. so that he could shake his NKVD guards and have a visit on the town in Manhattan, Molotov turned, Churchill thought, "rather serious." Stalin played it for a laugh: "It was not to New York he went. He went to Chicago, where the other gangsters live." At 1:30, after, a "long succession of choice dishes ... a considerable...