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...Rastrel [Death by shooting]." At each death sentence cheers rang through the packed courtroom, echoed by a crowd of 10,000 which had been standing in the snow outside since 5 p. m.- seven hours. To correspondents, some of the men sentenced to death looked "broken," others "nervous," as OGPU police took them to their cells. Were they really going to die? Occidental observers have been suspicious from the first that the trial was supreme propaganda, rehearsed in advance by prosecutor and prisoners, broadcast throughout Russia to convince peasants and proletarians that if the Soviet Government seems to get poor...
...most complex of all: We Demand the Supreme Punishment for Counter-Revolutionaries and the Order of Lenin (highest Soviet decoration) for the Ogpu! (secret police...
Lenin was no Jew, Trotsky (born Bronstein) is but has been exiled. "The present Soviet Dictator, Josef Stalin, is no Jew. The chief of the dread Ogpu or Soviet secret police, Comrade Menzhinsky...
...General in the Tsarist army, was arrested speedily at Moscow. Fired by the Soviet press, workers' meetings throughout European Russia telegraphed to the Capital resolution after resolution demanding Death for the 48 accused. One resolution asked that the supreme Soviet decoration, "The Order of Lenin," be conferred on Ogpu, the secret service organization which had ferreted out this plot. A new flood of contributions poured in from workers for the proposed Soviet Zeppelin, to be christened Ogpu in honor of the secret police...
Quiet sitters at the back of their Soviet union hall were five women whom Ogpu (Soviet secret police) pounced on last week, arrested. All were charged with falsifying their identity papers, accused of being former nuns masquerading as proletarians. Two of them, whilom Mother Superior Belayeva and Sister Danilova (both of the suppressed Convent of Ekaterinburg), were further accused of being former princesses.- To their homes the Ogpu frog-marched the protesting nuns, ransacked, found 800 silver ruble pieces, 250 rubles in Tsarist gold coins, "a panful of copper coins" and 515 carats of assorted precious stones. In reporting...