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cleared out.

But the NKVD could not evacuate all the prisoners, there were so many arrests,

and jails were replenished constantly. In such a case the NKVD, before making

a hasty retreat, would murder the prisoners in their cells.

I recall that when the Germans came, in the fall of 1941, to a little town,

Chornobil, on the Prypyat River, 62 miles west of Kiev, 52 corpses of recently

murdered people, slightly covered with earth, were found in the prison yeard.

These corpses had their hands tied at the back with wire; some had their backs

flayed, others had gouged eyes or nails driven into their heels; still others

had their noses, ears, tongues and even genitals cut away. Instruments of

torture which the communists used were found in the dungeon of the prison.

Many of the tortured people were identified because they were mostly farmers

from the local collectives who had been arrested by the NKVD for some unknown

reason.

For instance, one girl (whose name I cannot recall now) from the village of

Zallissya, a mile and a quarter from Chornobil, was arrested because one day

she failed to go to dig trenches. All were compelled at that time, to dig

anti-tank trenches. The girl was sick but there was no doctor to examine her

and the NKVD arrested her, never to return.

Two days later, when the Germans arrived, she was found among the fifty-two

corpses. (F. Fedorenko, My Testimony, in The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A

White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist Terror,

Toronto, 1953, pp. 97-98)

Andriy Vodopyan

CRIME IN STALINE

In this ciy in the NKVD prison factory the communists executed 180 persons

and buried them in two holes dug in the prison yard. The corpses were

liberally treated with unslaked lime, especially the faces.

My brother was sentenced to three months in jail for coming late to work.

After serving 18 days in the factory prison he was set free, and a month later

was drafted to the Red Army because this was in July 1941.

Later, his wife and my mother found him among the corpses, identifying him by

the left hand finger, underwear and papers he had on him.

This atrocity came to light when prisoners who remained alive were liberated.

They had also a very close call. Six days before the arrival of the German

troops they heard muffled shots.

The prison was secretly mined by NKVD agents in preparation for the German

invaders. (Andriy Vodopyan, Crime in Staline, in The Black Deeds of the

Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist

Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 121)

Yuriy Dniprovy

INNOCENT VICTIMS

In the little town of Zolotnyky in the Ternopil region the bolsheviks

murdered a captain of the former Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) of 1918-1922,

Mr. Dankiw, and clerks of the Ukrainian cooperative store, the sisters

Magdalene, Sophia and Clementine Husar from the suburb of Vaha. Clementine and

Magdalene were tortured in a beastly manner and had their breats cut off.

Other people executed at that time were: Slavko Demyd, Yosyp Vozny, Vasyl

Burbela, Zynoviy Kushniryna, Pavlo Kushniryna and a non-commissioned officer of

the UHA, Mr. Tsiholsky. (Yuriy Dniprovy, Innocent Victims, in The Black Deeds

of the Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian

Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 122)

P. K.

THE INFERNAL DEVICE OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS

(By an eyewitness) In the year 1942, when the Red Army, harassed by the

German divisions, retreated from Katerynodar (Krasnodar), the regional NKVD

division evacuated all the prisoners and sent them in the direction of

Novorossiysk. The railway line between Katerynodar and the station of Krymska

was jammed by nearly two hundred freight boxcars filled to capacity with

political prisoners.

Suspecting that all these prisoners might fall into German hands the

Russian NKVD men, as a precautionary measure, poured gasoline on the cars and

let them burn.

Thus a few thousand people perished in inhuman torture merely because they

were suspected of anti-communism.

When the Germans entered Katerynodar they found in the regional divisional

building of the NKVD in Sinny Bazar, a horrible torture chamber. In the vault

of this building there was a dark passage which ended with a wooden platform

which dipped down at a sharp angle. Right underneath it there was a machine

which resembled a straw chopper. It was a disk equipped with a system of big

knives that revolved at great speed. It was powered by a motor.

After questioning, the innocent victims were driven by the NKVD agents

towards the wooden platform and rolled under the knives of the hellish

meatchopper. The chopped bones and flesh of the victims fell into the sewers

and were carried away with a stream of sewage into the river Kuban.

Having discovered this horrible place, the Germans gave permission to all

who wished to view this inhuman device. Thousands of people visited the place,

among them the author of these lines.

Other nations direct their talents towards the discovery of better

medicines, new materials, better means of communication to make living

conditions better. The Russian people are using all their talents for the

production of machines and new methods of mass murder and torture. (P. K., The

infernal device of the Russian Communists (by an eyewitness), in The Black