Word: zherdiev
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...radio operator passed on another message: Mrs. Wulfson, wife of the Island's doctor, was being returned as a "counterrevolutionary, a dangerous woman." Mrs. Wulfson had a fine record in the Communist party. Instead of sending another doctor, Professor Schmidt sent a G. P. U. investigator named Zherdiev...
...Agent Zherdiev discovered enough material for a season of Grand Guignol. Crazy Governor Semenchuk and his sadistic wife had kept the entire colony in terror through two Arctic winters. Semenchuk indulged in long drunken orgies with a thick-headed sledge driver named Startzev, raped Eskimo girls, sent indignant Dr. Wulfson off on a long sledge expedition, sent Startzev after him to kill him, then tried to poison Startzev. The widow Wulf-son managed to administer a life-saving antidote to Startzev. Mrs. Semenchuk whipped Eskimo men, who were first forbidden to fish, then denied use of the Island...
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