Street Juice
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When the Bolsheviks, overwhelmingly Jewish, took power in Russia in 1917, one of the first things they did was make anti-Semitism a capital offence (is anyone else here more than a little concerned over the recent passage of the anti-white legislation in the House condemning anti-Semitism?). The Bolsheviks next established the secret police, called the CheKa, which was even more dominated by Jews.
Red Terror
Now, as long as we’re comparing Tsarist autocracy to Soviet communism, which replaced it: immediately, under the Bolsheviks, “the Cheka’s methods within Russia were far more brutal and murderous than any measures experienced under the Tsars” (The Soul of the East, 2010). But I fear this rather understates the disparities.
Allow me to share with you a few selections from The Red Terror in Russia (1926) by Sergei Melgunov, who was actually there at the time. (“The classic account of the terror at the local level… he had no need to exaggerate the horrors, and much of the evidence he used had been published in the Bolshevik press… confirmed by recent revelations from the Russian archives and by historians,” according to historian Robert Gellately.)
In time the Che-Ka began to add moral tortures to physical: executions began to be carried out in such close proximity to the cells that the other prisoners could plainly hear the rifle shots as they issued from the small, dark kitchen which Saenko had converted into a torture and execution chamber. And when later, in June of the year in question, Denikin’s searchers inspected the room, they found there two pood-weights [35 lbs. each] so tied together with an arshin-long [28-inch] section of rubber piping as to form a kind of flail, with the straw covering of the floor sodden with the blood of the slaughtered, and the wall facing the door seamed and scarred with bullet marks, and the other walls bespattered with blood and fragments of scalp, and hair, and particles of brain, and the floor littered with similar fragments. And when 107 corpses were disinterred in the adjacent concentration camp the most horrible atrocities became revealed — terrible traces of flogging, shattered ribs and leg bones, fractured skulls, amputated hands and feet, heads attached to the trunk only with a strip of cartilage, patches where the skin had been burnt off with red-hot instruments, stripes branded upon the back, and general mutilations.
The first body to be exhumed was the body of Zhako-britsky, an ex-cornet of the 6th Hussars. He must have been cruelly beaten before death, for some of his ribs had been fractured, and there were thirteen scars on the body caused by pressure against some red-hot, circular implement. All the scars were on the front of the body save for a single stripe burnt upon the back. The skull of another corpse was found flattened into a single, smooth, round disk about a centimetre in thickness. Such expatulation of the head could have been caused only by enormous pressure between two flat objects. On a woman whose identity we could not establish we found seven stab and shot wounds. Also, manifestly she had been thrown into the grave before death.
And so on and so forth.
Edited - too long.
An OP should be 3-4 paragraphs, link and content.
Street Juice
Red Terror
Now, as long as we’re comparing Tsarist autocracy to Soviet communism, which replaced it: immediately, under the Bolsheviks, “the Cheka’s methods within Russia were far more brutal and murderous than any measures experienced under the Tsars” (The Soul of the East, 2010). But I fear this rather understates the disparities.
Allow me to share with you a few selections from The Red Terror in Russia (1926) by Sergei Melgunov, who was actually there at the time. (“The classic account of the terror at the local level… he had no need to exaggerate the horrors, and much of the evidence he used had been published in the Bolshevik press… confirmed by recent revelations from the Russian archives and by historians,” according to historian Robert Gellately.)
In time the Che-Ka began to add moral tortures to physical: executions began to be carried out in such close proximity to the cells that the other prisoners could plainly hear the rifle shots as they issued from the small, dark kitchen which Saenko had converted into a torture and execution chamber. And when later, in June of the year in question, Denikin’s searchers inspected the room, they found there two pood-weights [35 lbs. each] so tied together with an arshin-long [28-inch] section of rubber piping as to form a kind of flail, with the straw covering of the floor sodden with the blood of the slaughtered, and the wall facing the door seamed and scarred with bullet marks, and the other walls bespattered with blood and fragments of scalp, and hair, and particles of brain, and the floor littered with similar fragments. And when 107 corpses were disinterred in the adjacent concentration camp the most horrible atrocities became revealed — terrible traces of flogging, shattered ribs and leg bones, fractured skulls, amputated hands and feet, heads attached to the trunk only with a strip of cartilage, patches where the skin had been burnt off with red-hot instruments, stripes branded upon the back, and general mutilations.
The first body to be exhumed was the body of Zhako-britsky, an ex-cornet of the 6th Hussars. He must have been cruelly beaten before death, for some of his ribs had been fractured, and there were thirteen scars on the body caused by pressure against some red-hot, circular implement. All the scars were on the front of the body save for a single stripe burnt upon the back. The skull of another corpse was found flattened into a single, smooth, round disk about a centimetre in thickness. Such expatulation of the head could have been caused only by enormous pressure between two flat objects. On a woman whose identity we could not establish we found seven stab and shot wounds. Also, manifestly she had been thrown into the grave before death.
And so on and so forth.
Edited - too long.
An OP should be 3-4 paragraphs, link and content.
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