Word: ogpu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Paris flat last week Mme Dmitri Navachine joined the ranks of Russian widows who say their husbands have been murdered by Joseph Stalin's accomplished Secret Service or Ogpu.* Husband Dmitri Navachine was perhaps the ablest Soviet banker, economist and financier Communism has produced. As Director of the Soviet State Bank's Paris branch for some years, Red Navachine won the confidence of such leading French statesmen as the present Premier Léon Blum and his predecessors, Premiers Herriot & Laval. The Bolshevik banker convinced these statesmen that France could trust Dictator Joseph Stalin and the result...
...their friends. Soviet Russia has, in all western Europe, only one treaty-ally, the French Republic. Therefore, since Comrade Navachine, who had sold France on Stalin in the first place, was now going to try to unsell France on Stalin, the situation in which Paris agents of the Ogpu found themselves was "vital to the Soviet Fatherland...
...Extradite Trotsky!" Old Bolsheviks taken from the prisoners' dock last week to Ogpu subterranean cellars, whence their execution was announced by the Government after 60 hours, were all ace-high Communists only in Russia, scarcely famed abroad. The execution this week of Grigoriy Piatakov, Vice-Commissar for Heavy Industry, after his super-sabotage confession, leaves Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze Commisar for Heavy Industry, vindicated in the Soviet press for Heavy Industry's having fallen behind the Five-Year Plan. Other confessions and executions of the week vindicated virtually all Russia's thousands...
...That Monkey" Radek almost certainly knew in advance he would be spared, for he behaved in Court last week with consummate impudence. He called a Supreme Court Judge "Comrade" - implying there were traitors and "Trotskyists" even on the Bench. He intimated that all the confessions were Ogpu-cooked lies, his own included...
...weeks I tortured my investigators by refusing to confess!" sneered the Monkey, thus openly hinting third-degree methods by the Ogpu - and yet Karl Ra dek got away with all his impudence while 13 others got Death...