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Picked for Death. In such circumstances just how does even the bloodiest state decide who is to be shot? Ever since the Soviet Government was established lists of undesirables have been kept. In times of emergency the Gay-pay-oo merely work down the list. Examinations are still guided by the rule of Lenin's famed Terrorist Executioner Latsis: "Do not look for clues in a case, whether the arrested man rebelled against the Soviets by word or by deed. First of all, you must ask him what class he belongs to, what is his extraction, what is his education...
...carry out this state butchery, Russia's Puppet President Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was obliged by the Dictator to cancel with a stroke of the pen most of the "progress" ostentatiously made when the Gay-pay-oo was transformed into the Commissariat of Interior under its Gay-pay-oo chief, Comrade Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda (TIME, July 23). Last week Stalin was said to be so vexed with Yagoda that he had suspended him as Commissar of Interior. The decree of President Kalinin deprived persons arrested not only of any right to be defended by a lawyer but also of the right...
...Last week the chief drumhead court in Moscow was presided over by Judge Vassily Ulrich, famed during the British Engineers' Propaganda Trial (TIME, April 24, 1932). In a tome published last year by Dr. Karl Kindermann. a German research student who was arrested on suspicion by the Gay-pay-oo some years ago, he describes Judge Ulrich thus: "I was particularly fascinated by the loathesomely hideous face of the President of the Court, Ulrich. ... I immediately associated him with the idea of a butcher who had just emerged steaming from an abattoir rather than that of a judge. In Russia...
...into pious language. All Soviet papers emphasized that as soon as Dear Friend Sergei's ashes were in their niche, Dictator Stalin mounted Lenin's Tomb beside the Kremlin wall, funeral music changed to the bray of military bands, and crack detachments of the Red Army and Gay-pay-oo troops swung past at the double while 64 airplanes filled the sky, approximately one for every Russian executed...
With censorship around the Kremlin airtight, travelers leaving Russia reported that at Leningrad the local Gay-pay-oo, in panic at Stalin's arrival to investigate Kirov's death fortnight ago, refused to admit agents of the Moscow Gay-pay-oo who accompanied the Dictator...