ГУЛаг Палестины

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)

(17) The chopped bones and flesh of the victims fell into the sewers.

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 Deeds of the

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

Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, pp. 123-124)

(18) Some had nails driven into their skulls.

M. Kowal

BOLSHEVIK MURDERS

I am Michael Kowal, from the town of Kaminka Strumylova in the

Lviw Region in Ukraine. During the communist occupation of Western

Ukraine I personally witnessed three arrests in my native town on

June 22, 1941, those of Bohdan Mulkevich, and Michael Mulkevich who

lived on Zamok Street, and Michael Mulkevich's blacksmith

apprentice, presumably from the village of Rymaniw in the same

Region. They were suspected of disloyalty to the communist regime.

After the communist retreat from Kaminska-Strumylova they were

found in the town prison with 33 other victims, murdered in a

horribly sadistic manner. All the corpses were tied together with

barbed wire and all bore signs of terrible beatings. Some had

nails driven into their skulls. None of them had been shot to

death. Their bodies, nude and badly mauled, were practically

unrecognizable to their relatives.

Bohdan Mulkevish's wife recognized her husband, but, trying to

verify her identification by his gold teeth, found them missing.

All the bodies were taken away for interment.

That Same day 19 other bodies were discovered near the village

of Todan about 9 or 10 kilometers from Kaminka-Strumylova. They

were tied to trees and their chests were pierced with bayonets.

These were all identified by relatives and taken away for burial.

(M. Kowal, Bolshevik Murders, in The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A

White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist

Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 529)

(19) Shot the children in cold blood.

Andriy Vodopyan

A RAVINE FILLED WITH THE BODIES OF CHILDREN

I was serving in the Soviet Russian Army. Our artillery unit

was retreating before the Germans in the direction of Yeletsk. On

September 18, 1941, our unit came to a wide ravine situated about

14 miles from Chartsysk station, and about 60 miles from the city

of Staline. The ravine stretched from the station of Chartsysk to

the station of Snizhy. When we approached the ravine we were taken

aback by a horrible sight. The whole ravine was filled with the

bodies of children. They were lying in different positions. Most

of them were from 14 to 16 years of age. They were dressed in

black, and we recognized them as students of the F.S.U., a

well-known trade and craft school. We counted 370 bodies

altogether. All of them had been killed by machine gun fire.

This group of children was being evacuated from Staline when

the Germans neared the city. The children had marched 60 miles,

and, exhausted and unable to continue walking, asked for