Word: stypulkowski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Invitation to Moscow, by Z. Stypulkowski. Gripping personal history by a leader of the Polish underground who refused to "confess" despite 70 days & nights of Soviet-style interrogation (TIME, June...
Invitation to Moscow, by Z. Stypulkowski. Gripping personal history by a leader of the Polish underground who refused to "confess," despite 70 days & nights of Soviet-style interrogation (TIME, June...
Invitation to Moscow, by Z. Stypulkowski. Gripping personal history by a leader of the Polish underground who refused to "confess" despite 70 days &nights of Soviet-style interrogation (TIME, June...
Each prisoner had his personal inquisitor. Stypulkowski's was a stocky, yellow-faced major named Tichonov. Meshing physical with psychological tactics, Tichonov soon tightened his prisoner's nerves till they hummed. First, there was the long ominous walk from the cell to the examining room,hands pinned back. Dry-mouthed with anxiety, Stypulkowski might find Tichonov cajoling or coercive but never twice in a row the same. "You German hireling!" (or sometimes, "British spy"), he would rant. "Don't try to cheat the Soviet Union. . . We know everything." Or, satan-smooth...
...Water Jag. The shortest interrogation ran three hours, several lasted a grueling 15. Officially, prisoners slept between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., but Stypulkowski was hauled out of bed 69 nights out of 70. Sleep at any time was a virtual miracle. A lumpy mattress and a single blanket left him aching and cold. By prison rules, hands had to be kept outside the blanket, and a naked light bulb was always trained on his head. Any attempt to tuck in frozen fingers or face away from the light brought a barked reprimand from the guard at the peephole...