Another artist martyred to the regime with which Franklin Roosevelt felt comfortable confederating the United States, the Russian communists:
c.
Vsevolod Meyerhold... was a Russian and Soviet
theatre director,
actorand
theatrical producer.... In the early 1930s, when
Joseph Stalin repressed all avant-garde art and experimentation, his works were proclaimed antagonistic and alien to the Soviet people. His theatre was closed down ... Meyerhold was
brutally tortured[5]and forced to confess that he worked for Japanese and British
intelligence agencies. He later recanted the confession in a letter to
Vyacheslav Molotov.
The file on Meyerhold contains his letter from prison to Molotov:
“The investigators began to use force on me, a sick 65-year-old man. I was made to lie face down and beaten on the soles of my feet and my spine with a rubber strap... For the next few days, when those parts of my legs were covered with extensive internal hemorrhaging, they again beat the red-blue-and-yellow bruises with the strap and the pain was so intense that it felt as if boiling water was being poured on these sensitive areas. I howled and wept from the pain…
When I lay down on the cot and fell asleep, after 18 hours of interrogation, in order to go back in an hour's time for more, I was woken up by my own groaning and because I was jerking about like a patient in the last stages of typhoid fever.
[6]”
He was sentenced to
death by firing squadon 1 February 1940, and
executed the next day. The Soviet government cleared him of all charges in 1955, during the first wave of
de-Stalinization."
Vsevolod Meyerhold - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
" Three weeks later, thugs acting on orders of Stalin's secret police broke into Meyerhold's Moscow apartment and savagely attacked [his wife] Raikh; she died of 17 stab wounds, two of them through her eyes.."
Zinaida Raikh 1894 - 1939 - Find A Grave Memorial
The above starkly illustrates the governance of Joseph Stalin, the man Franklin Roosevelt called 'Uncle Joe,' and for whom he lied to the American people: "Stalin fights for the same things as America does!"
Roosevelt swore to the American public that the Bolsheviks fought for the same things as America did.
Amazing.
