Somewhere inside one of the NKVD torture catacombs during years of theīy the order of the prosecutor general Vyshinsky, any methods were considered “good” to get the confession. “Crushing the skull” of “enemy of the nation” who didn’t agree to give away his daily work results to thugs. Those felons helped to eliminate “enemies of the people”… They usually weren’t working, having small-time thieves as servants and work results from common inmates. Repeatedly convicted felons were about 3 steps higher than “enemies of the people” in criminal hierarchy. In the Gulag, kingpins were privileged similarly to modern bureaucrats. I’ll give him snow so bulls won’t walk into him too soon!” “Sprinkle ‘im with holy water for a better afterlife. Preparations for freezing to death a thug who had lost his own life in card game. “I am… English, French, American, Japanese, Italian, German and other spy…” According to laws of Soviet humanism, only those who had normal body temperature (36.6…37 C) could be shot.
Depictions of the Soviet genocide.Ī prisoner who went on hunger strike is being forcefully fed through his nostril. Pictures from the book “Drawings from the GULAG” by Danzig Baldaev, a retired Soviet prison guard.
