ZVERINETS (the murderers who were despised even by the Gestapo. “The Empire of Soviet Vatniks”).

CAREER BY CALLING.

At the end of 1908, in the Kherson province, a boy was born into the family of a craftsman, Feitel Reichman. They named him Lazar, after a smart Jew who lived many years ago. By giving their child this name, the parents probably wanted him to grow up smart and kind. However, a thousand years ago, a Jewish philosopher said of his blood relatives: “.. smart for evil, but do not know how to do good..”. That was the case with Lazar.
In 1917, all the Reichmans in Russia were incredibly lucky, their own people seized power. Hundreds of Bundists who had entered the country from Germany with Lenin and hundreds who had arrived in the belly of a passenger ship from America with Trotsky took advantage of the situation. Having waited for the right moment, they let sailors, workers and criminals, released from prison after the abdication of the Tsar, into the wine cellars of Petrograd. They set this vodka-fueled crowd on a looting and murder spree. In that bloody sabbath, Trotsky’s first Chekist units seized institutions, drove the owners of houses, apartments and mansions out into the street, or simply shot them, by the thousands.

Lenin and Trotsky created the Red Army from Chinese mercenaries, and the repressive machine of the Cheka – exclusively from their own. Trotsky shouted about the victory of Zionism and sent appeals to those living beyond the Pale of Settlement in Belarus, Western Ukraine, Bessarabia. And artisans, traders, shoemakers, watchmakers rushed to Petrograd and Moscow from the western outskirts of the empire. The most ugly, stupid and aggressive were selected for Trotsky’s punitive detachments. They were given a leather jacket and a revolver. And they were allowed to shoot, not sparing the bullets. And then the pretext arrived: Moisha Uritsky, the head of the Petrograd Cheka, a friend of Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, was killed. And the Chekists declared the Red Terror, began to take hostage and shoot Russians, including women, children, old people, by the tens of thousands. And they unleashed the Civil War and genocide. And they reigned for a long time. Forever.

The tale that the Cheka was created to fight the class enemy is as much a bluff as the Bolsheviks’ claim that they expressed the interests of the working class, being its representatives. Not a single passenger on the sealed train that arrived with Lenin and not a single passenger on the liner that arrived with Trotsky from overseas was a worker. They were Bundists, Zionists, they were going to take over the world and started with Russia, which Trotsky planned to make “a desert populated by white Negroes.” The Cheka was created to physically suppress those who disagreed with the regime. The repressions multiplied and the guillotine constantly needed servants.

And then young Lazar Raikhman decided that his time had come.
In 1924, a 16-year-old blockhead with two years of education, was already in the secret political departments of the OGPU-NKVD in Petrograd. Like all revolutionaries in Russia, he changed his name, became Leonid Fedorovich, but kept his last name so that his own would recognize him. Depending on the circumstances, when it was necessary to pretend to be completely Russian, he appeared in false documents as Zaitsev. He
quickly gained experience in recruitment and blackmail, torture and beatings became his methods. The smell of blood awakened the beast in him, he reveled in power.
During the Kremlin squabble for power, Raikhman acted so successfully, beating confessions out of his victims along with their teeth, that he received the rank of captain of the State Security Service ahead of schedule, not having time to wear out the shoulder straps of a senior lieutenant.
By the beginning of 1939, Reichman was already one of the trusted executioners of his boss Beria. He mastered the profession of a liquidator, learned to plan assassinations. In this, his teacher was his colleague from the fourth department of the NKVD, Naum Eitingen, and from then on they developed all operations together.
From 1939, Reichman held leadership positions in the NKVD Directorate in Transcarpathia. There, with the occupation of Western Ukraine, the firing squads had enough work. Then – the head of the special department of the GUGB, one of the leaders of the state security agencies, the nomenclature of the government apparatus. He specialized in liquidations, political assassinations, and document falsification. From February 1941, he was already deputy. head of the 2nd department (counterintelligence) of the NKVD-NKGB Directorate of the USSR. His name was also known in the secret services abroad. The Gestapo called Reichman the most professional scoundrel killer in Stalin’s team.

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ATTEMPT ON TROTSKY.

All the Bundists saw Trotsky as their leader. He built the mechanism of power and in this mechanism he put Jews in all the posts. And Lenin held rallies, brainwashed crowds of illiterate people and was in favor with the mob. Therefore, he easily seized power from Trotsky.
But for this, Lenin received a bullet from the Bundists. He became weak and Stalin, who had entered the corridors of power, took him out of the game, sent him into home exile, where the excommunicated man soon died.
The Leninists helped Stalin seize all power, hoping to profit. But Stalin knew this whole pack of jackals, he knew what awaited him if he did not share power. Therefore, at first he caved in, and then began to eliminate both the Leninists and Trotskyists one by one, doing it with the help of others. And when by 1929 he had subdued the entire apparatus of power, became a dictator, he drove Trotsky himself out of the country. And then came the “trials”, Stalin chopped into pieces the snake that could have bitten him fatally, and with repressions he instilled animal fear in the people.
The head of the snake crawled abroad and spat poison from there. They hunted for the head. When the decapitated body of Trotsky’s secretary Rudolf Klement was fished out of Seine, and his second assistant was shot in a cafe in Lausanne, Trotsky himself fled to Mexico and settled there in a separate house, with guards. He did not speak English or Spanish, so he grumbled to the émigré press about what a genius and a visionary he was, and what a criminal and scoundrel Stalin was. And obliging journalists translated and printed his articles in American newspapers.
Stalin was fed up with all this. In early May 1940, he ordered his dogs to shut Trotsky’s mouth. The action was entrusted to Mexican communists.
It was like pirates storming a Spanish fortress. Dressed in military uniforms, with machine guns and dynamite sticks, with assault ladders and grappling hooks, the bandits climbed the walls of Trotsky’s residence. All the guards were killed. Trotsky and his wife hid under the bed in the bedroom and it seemed that this was the most reliable shelter. They were not found, and the soldiers who arrived to the noise of the shooting dispersed the would-be terrorists. They left a bomb with a time mechanism, but it did not explode either…

Stalin summoned Beria. He pounded his pipe on the table and in Beria’s ears this pounding echoed like the roar of an exploding grenade. Stalin demanded professionalism. He ordered to smash the snake’s head. Beria took the order literally. The development of the operation was entrusted to Naum Eitingen, a professional in wet work. The Soviet press called him the punishing sword of the revolution. Reichman was his student and accomplice. The perpetrator of the action was determined to be the Mexican communist Ramon Mercader, fanatically devoted to Stalin. He was given the task of gaining Trotsky’s trust and killing him.
The hired killer became a regular at Trotsky’s house and one day in August 1940, he smashed Trotsky’s skull with an ice pick. The guards came running to the screams of the wounded man, but Trotsky asked them not to rush to kill, first interrogate the killer, who knew a lot. Trotsky died in hospital the next day and his last words were “..this time they succeeded..” Mercader received 20 years in prison, after serving his term he hid with Fidel Castro in Cuba. In 1961 he was awarded the “Hero of the Soviet Union” order, his photo is in a place of honor in the KGB museum on Lubyanka.

ATTEMPT ON VON PAPEN.

Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen was a German statesman, politician and diplomat. In the fall of 1941, Stalin’s intelligence detected contacts between the German ambassador to Turkey, von Papen, and the British regarding the conclusion of a separate peace. This would have allowed Hitler to transfer divisions from the Western Front to Moscow to complete the blitzkrieg. Stalin ordered his services to liquidate the ambassador. The plan was developed and implemented by NKVD professionals, the same Eitingen and Reichman. Their assistants were the intelligence resident in Turkey Vasilevsky and the GRU officer Vinarov. The executors were two Bulgarian terrorists working for the NKVD. They were equipped with specially made smoke bombs that would help them hide in the smoke and panic after the action. The bombs were made in the NKVD laboratory and their filling was a surprise.
On February 24, 1942, a Bulgarian militant approached von Papen, who was heading to the embassy. The terrorist was nervous and pulled the pin on the bomb before shooting the ambassador. However, the bomb was not a smoke bomb, but a real one, and instantly blew the militant to pieces. The second terrorist had his partner’s brains so splattered in his eyes that he could no longer think straight, and was easily captured. At the same time, von Papen and his wife were only knocked off their feet by the blast wave. The idea of ​​the operation was to cover up the traces after shooting the ambassador, leaving no survivors of the perpetrators. Therefore, they were given a surprise bomb so that they would destroy themselves. This was Stalin’s signature, leaving no witnesses to his wet deeds. The Kremlin dictator did not even punish his masters for the failed terrorist attack.
Hitler’s Gestapo quickly got on the trail, the “overseers” in Bulgaria, Soviet employees Mordvinov and Kornilov, were arrested. After two years in a Turkish prison, they were exchanged for Hitler’s agents.

THEY RAN TO MANCHURIA!

During the war, Stalin’s secret services learned from the Germans, often copying their teachers. Thus, after the completion of an action, the Germans left traces that they, the Germans, had done it. The Russians, after completing their action, also left traces that the Germans had done it. In early September 1939, Hitler’s troops invaded Poland and pushed the Poles to the east. On September 17, the Red Army struck the Polish army in the back. More than 250 thousand Polish soldiers were captured by the Soviets. In Brest-Litovsk, Poland, the victors celebrated their victory. There was a military parade commanded by Generals Guderian and Krivoshein. Columns of Red Army soldiers and Nazis stomped their boots, and banners with a swastika and a hammer and sickle fluttered above their heads.

In the first weeks of the occupation of Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, the Chekists liquidated several thousand people. A camp for tens of thousands of Polish prisoners was found far from prying eyes, on Seliger, in a former monastery in the Kalinin (now Tver) region. On March 5, 1940, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) ordered the NKVD to shoot 14,700 “former Polish officers, officials, landowners, policemen, intelligence officers, gendarmes, settlers and jailers” held in three special camps. And at the same time to shoot 11 thousand Polish factory owners and officials sitting in prisons in the western regions of Belarus and Ukraine. Stalin personally countersigned the directive across the entire page with one word: “ LIQUIDATE !”
The NKVD carried out the directive, in May 1940 the traces of 21 thousand 857 people held in Ostashkov (Kalinin region), Kozelsk (Smolensk) and Starobelsk (Kharkov) camps and prisons were lost forever. The prisoners were driven to Ostashkov to the station, from there by rail to Kalinin. There the convoy handed over its “cargo” to the NKVD, where the traces of the prisoners ended, they were never seen alive again.

When in December 1941 the head of the Polish government, General Sikorski, asked Stalin at a meeting where thousands of Polish prisoners had gone, he heard:
“ They ran away .”
“ Where? ” asked the Polish general.
“ Well, to Manchuria ,” Stalin shrugged.
In addition to the question of the fate of Polish prisoners of war in Russia, Sikorski also raised the issue of the post-war border between the two countries. This made him an enemy of the Kremlin dictator. Stalin had no plans to return occupied Poland to the Poles. He personally hated Sikorski since 1920, when the Red Army was defeated in Poland.

During the war in Russia, on April 13, 1943, the remains of those who “escaped to Manchuria” were found by the Germans in the Katyn forest. Mass graves of Polish soldiers and officers were discovered, approximately 14 thousand military personnel captured in 1939. Local residents and Soviet officials testified that the Poles had been shot by the NKVD. A few days after the discovery, German radio reported this to the entire world and the Polish Minister of Defense, on behalf of his government, asked the International Red Cross to investigate this crime. The Red Cross Commission exhumed 4,143 bodies. Most had been killed by a pistol shot to the back of the head, some had stab wounds from Soviet square bayonets. 2,815 people were identified – all of them turned out to be from the Kozelsk camp, which was suddenly emptied in April-May 1940.

Stalin was so furious that on April 26 he announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the Polish government in London. He called Sikorski a Nazi collaborator and accused Churchill and Roosevelt of delaying military aid to Russia. Stalin’s propaganda raised a fuss that the atrocity was the work of the Nazis themselves, who allegedly took the “Polish prisoners of war” after the retreat of the Soviet troops. However, the lie did not stand up to criticism: the Poles were killed in 1940, the Wehrmacht units entered Kozelsk on October 8, 1941, Starobelsk on July 12, 1942, and the Germans did not reach the Ostashkov camp at all.
Two months after the discovery of the mass graves in the Katyn forest,
in July 1943, the head of the Polish government in exile, General Sikorski, an eternal enemy of Stalin, died in a plane crash over the British military base in Gibraltar and the name Katyn disappeared from the newspapers for a long time.

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SIX ATTEMPTS ON SIKORSKI.

1) In 1940, there was an attempt on Sikorski’s life in Paris.
2) In 1941, there was an attempt on his life in London.
3) On March 21, 1942, the general flew out to report to Roosevelt. A bomb was found on board that was supposed to explode immediately after the plane landed on American soil. The bomb was defused.
4) On November 30, 1942, Sikorski flew back to the United States to see Roosevelt to discuss the complicated Polish-Soviet relations. The plane took off safely, but at an altitude of 30 meters, both engines suddenly failed. The pilot managed to land the plane, it was dragged 200 meters, the passengers were not hurt.
5) On January 12, 1943, a similar accident occurred at an airfield in Newfoundland on the way back to Great Britain. After that, no one believed in coincidence. But Stalin’s security services still outwitted Sikorski.
6) On July 4, 1943, General Sikorski died in a plane crash. The plane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea immediately after takeoff from the airfield. At the same time that the Polish politician was in Gibraltar, the USSR Ambassador to Great Britain Maisky arrived there on an unscheduled visit. Both planes, Ambassador Maisky’s and General Sikorski’s, were parked next to each other at the airfield. At least a dozen officials and military personnel, whose identities were not established, were circling around. The mystery of the general’s death remained unsolved.
Note : Of course, you remember the crash of a Polish plane near Smolensk on April 10, 2010 and the death of all members of the government. Does it remind you of anything?

In January 1944, the so-called “Special Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of the Circumstances of the Execution of Polish Officers of War by the Nazi Invaders in the Katyn Forest” (N. Burdenko’s Commission) hastened to publish its conclusion: the Poles had been shot by the Germans. The work of the Burdenko Commission was preceded by a special operation to falsify evidence. Immediately after the liberation of Smolensk, a special group of the state security general already known to the reader, Reichman, worked there. His people prepared false witnesses and fabricated evidence that was supposed to prove that the Polish prisoners had been exterminated by the Germans. In the minutes of the meetings of the government commission for the Nuremberg Trials, Reichman appears as one of three members of the group that worked with the Katyn materials; in addition to him, the group included a certain Trainin and the lawyer Sheinin. Three “specialists” fabricated a dossier that was presented in the materials of the Soviet group of prosecutors at the trial. The swindle became an official document for almost half a century, and Kremlin scribblers and falsifiers-historians referred to these “documents” in their publications.

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HOW THEY EXECUTED THE PRISONERS.

In a picturesque corner of the Kalinin region, the high bank of the Tvertsa River is covered with a dense pine forest. The Chekists had long since taken a fancy to this place: there were vacation homes for the heads of the central apparatus of the NKVD, and then the dachas of the regional Chekists were attached to them. There is still a sign hanging there, now as an exhibit: “Attention! Entry, entry into the territory of the complex is strictly prohibited! The territory is guarded by service dogs.” Far from prying eyes, that forest turned out to be convenient both for recreation and for the secret burial of the executed. According to the recollections of the owners of the dachas, the strawberries there were very large and juicy. Of course, the fertilizers were natural.
The forest there is strewn with crosses. On the wall of the “Mednoe” memorial, 6,311 Polish names are carved. But it is not only the executed Poles who lie there. There are Russians in the burial pits. There are over 5 thousand of them.
“Our compatriots, shot by the Chekists, were secretly brought here for burial until 1953,” explained researcher Elena Obraztsova, deputy director of the memorial complex.

When Katyn again attracted the attention of the world community during the short period of glasnost, the KGB rushed to assure foreigners that Soviet soldiers who had died in a field hospital were buried there. But foreigners demanded an investigation. In August 1991, an investigative group from the USSR Main Military Prosecutor’s Office carried out a partial exhumation on the territory of the KGB dachas. In the first pit they dug up, they found human bones, fragments of Polish uniforms, uniform buttons and headdresses with the Polish eagle, medallions, documents, letters, and personal belongings. And all the skulls had bullet holes in the back of the head.
They were destroyed by order of the highest authority. Former head of the Kalinin NKVD General Tokarev: “…We had no authorities above the Politburo. Only the seventh heaven…”. In March 1940, Tokarev was unexpectedly summoned to Moscow along with his deputy. At a meeting with Kobulov (Beria’s trusted employee), representatives of three NKVD Directorates received instructions on the execution. Then, for almost a month, they prepared to receive the prisoners, then a group of high-ranking officials arrived in Kalinin from Moscow: the head of the Main Transport Directorate of the NKVD, 3rd-rank State Security Commissar S.R. Milshtein, his deputy – Senior Major of State Security N.I. Sinegubov, Chief of Staff of the Convoy Troops, Brigade Commander M.S. Krivenko, and the head of the commandant’s department of the Administrative and Economic Directorate of the NKVD, Major of State Security V. Blokhin.
This Blokhin was the main executioner of the NKVD. Over the years of his “work”, he personally shot from 10,000 to 50,000 people! He could “execute” 200 or more people in a day…
The prisoners were delivered to Kalinin from Ostashkov by rail in batches. They were placed in cells of the internal prison of the NKVD, which was specially freed of all those arrested for this operation, transferring them to another prison.

The procedure was as follows: the Poles were taken one by one to a holding cell, their last name, first name, and year of birth were checked, and handcuffs were put on. Then they were brought into a cell, where the executioner shot the victim in the back of the head. The transporter brought the body to the yard, where the executed were loaded into cars, the bodies were covered with tarpaulin, and the corpses were taken to Mednoye, where a ditch dug by excavators was already waiting. The bodies were dumped into pits and covered. The bodies were washed of blood every day, and Blokhin ordered the tarpaulin sheets to be burned after the operation was completed. After each night, the head of the Kalinin NKVD Directorate, Tokarev, reported to the deputy people’s commissar Merkulov about the number of those “executed.” Blokhin and his henchmen did the shooting.
In the sewing workshop of the NKVD administrative and economic department, they sewed for Blokhin a long, wide leather apron that reached to the floor, a leather cap and leather gloves with grommets – so as not to splash blood on his clothes. On the first night, 343 people were shot, finishing at sunrise. Blokhin ordered that no more than 250 people be brought. To facilitate the process, Moscow comrades brought a batch of German 7.65 mm Walther pistols. Domestic pistols were not suitable for such an action, they broke down after 15-30 shots.

“…AND WHY DO YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS..?”

In mid-1987, during the period of Gorbachev’s glasnost, on the orders of the Main Archival Administration under the USSR Council of Ministers and in pursuance of the directive of the CPSU Central Committee, archivists were required to identify all documents on this issue. In an extremely short period of time, a colossal volume of documents was discovered in the collections of the Secretariat of the People’s Commissar of Defense, the Main Political Administration of the Red Army and the General Staff alone, covering the fate of prisoners of war of the Polish army, captured by Red Army units and then transferred to the NKVD.
The documents precisely indicated how many and where prisoners of war were held and what fate Stalin’s Politburo had prepared for them. It was proposed that the rank-and-file ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians be sent home, having first been used for road work, under the supervision of the NKVD. A top-secret message was discovered in the archives, intended personally for Voroshilov, as a member of the Politburo. A coded telegram from the Special Sector of the Central Committee announced the decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee (read – Stalin), on the proposal of the People’s Commissar of the NKVD (Beria) to distribute the remaining prisoners of war among three special camps as especially malicious enemies of the Soviet power: officers and generals, gendarmes, chaplains, priests, as well as former servicemen of the Polish army and especially all those involved in intelligence and counterintelligence.
The party bosses hid all the information they found from the inspectors from the International Red Cross, as they had done for many years, hiding the truth from their fellow citizens. At one of the Politburo meetings, a high-ranking official of the CPSU Central Committee, Valentin Falin, reported that the check in the state and departmental archives allegedly did not reveal any new information on Polish prisoners of war. But in April 1990, under pressure from Western governments, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to inform Polish President Jaruzelski that evidence had been discovered during the investigation that “the massacre of Polish officers in Katyn was carried out by the then leaders of the NKVD.” However, while repenting of the regime’s crimes, Gorbachev wriggled and called the evidence “indirect, discovered outside the departmental archives, in which, unfortunately, no documents were preserved.”

In the same year of 1990, the Kharkov Regional Prosecutor’s Office opened a criminal case on the discovery of mass graves of Soviet citizens in the KGB Directorate’s dacha village. And the Kalinin Regional Prosecutor’s Office opened a case on the disappearance of Polish prisoners of war from the Ostashkov NKVD camp in May 1940. The USSR Prosecutor General’s Office combined both of these cases, entrusting it to the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office. The documents identified those involved, and some of them were identified and interrogated. Partial exhumations were carried out. At the same time, an examination of the investigation materials in the Katyn Forest was conducted, both by the international commission that worked in 1943 under the supervision of the Germans, and by the Soviet Burdenko Commission. The names and positions of the organizers and executors were revealed, and how it happened was established.
A huge number of documents established with absolute certainty that the Polish prisoners of war, whose bodies were found by the Germans in the Katyn forest, near Kharkov and near Mednoye, were shot in the spring of 1940 by NKVD officers.
As it turned out, all the documents were perfectly preserved and the top leadership of the CPSU was well aware of this. This was evidenced by the materials of “Package No. 1”, which all the General Secretaries from Khrushchev to Gorbachev signed off on reading.

That package contained the originals of Beria’s report – a proposal to liquidate Polish prisoners, an extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) – the very same directive on the execution; a note from the Chairman of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Shelepin from March 3, 1959 – information on the execution of 21,857 Polish citizens by decision of the Politburo and a proposal: “to destroy the materials on the operation, since they do not represent either operational interest or historical value.”

The short period of glasnost ended in Russia in 2004. The State Military Prosecutor’s Office suddenly stopped investigating the “Polish case”, and 116 of its 183 volumes were declared to contain state secrets and classified. Well, the government does not want to make public the names of its executioners, informers and organizers of the crime. After all, then they would have to point the finger at the living, that is, at themselves. Therefore, it is better to shift the blame to the dead. After all, they have no shame. And the idiot boxes began to flash that it was all Stalin, and we had nothing to do with it. We, they say, convicted him and threw him out of the sarcophagus. But these are fairy tales for the West. And for our own people, the bookstore shelves are slowly filling up with other fairy tales praising the Stalinist regime.
And the authorities have long ordered the Mednoye Memorial to be forgotten. Its Polish part is still preserved, but if you step into the Russian part, there are no names, only a crumbling complex, the financing of which was stopped in the same 2004. The FSB Directorate for the Tver Region has tightly closed access to materials on the repressions, and it is no longer possible to establish who is buried where.
Tver, the state united museum is located directly opposite the former building of the NKVD. The museum’s exhibits no longer hint that there was such a “terror” during which the Chekists exterminated thousands of Poles, thousands of Russians, including Tver residents.
“.. And why,” they asked the curious members of the commission in the museum, “what is this anyway and why do we need to know about it…”.

“..I really can hardly bear the highest measure..”
(admitted the hero of one of Mikhail Zoshchenko’s stories).
And they will tell us that Beria, Merkulov, Kobulov, Dekanozov, Meshik, Tsanava, Ryumin, Goglidze and all their henchmen executioners compromised the NKVD and the MGB of the USSR. And that’s why we executed them all. And having said so, they will lie again. Many torturers lived out their days and died in prosperity, surrounded by their relatives, and their children and grandchildren now occupy high positions in government structures. Many executioners committed suicide, but some managed to “execute” their bosses. So they are not giving you the whole truth. Although they assure you that no one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten, they also helpfully slip you a list of what and who should be remembered, and what and who should be forgotten!
This is how they ended:

• The driver of the Kalinin NKVD Sukharev, who killed prisoners, shot himself
• The deputy head of the same department, Pavlov, committed suicide
• The commandant of the department, Rubanov, drank himself to death, went crazy, and then shot himself.
• The commandant of the state security dachas in Kozi Gory (Katyn Forest) Kartsev,
  according to his daughter, showed her the burial place of
  those executed after the war, lay down on a mound and cried for a long time, and on January 18, 1948, he committed suicide.
• The chief executioner of the USSR Blokhin was very proud of the fact that he personally shot famous people of the country, including military leaders Yakir, Tukhachevsky, Uborevich, his former boss Yezhov, writer Babel, journalist Koltsov, director Meyerhold.
  The executioner earned himself general’s shoulder straps, but after Stalin’s death he was fired, stripped of his general’s rank “as having discredited himself during his time working in the organs”, and in February 1955 the beast Blokhin shot himself.
• In 1953 Beria, Kobulov, Merkulov were shot, in 1955 General Milshtein was shot. The authorities kept silent about who “executed” them, obviously Blokhin was quickly replaced. Executioners are always in great demand, by any government.
• The former head of the UPVI of the NKVD of the USSR, Soprunenko, gave testimony to the GVP investigators and managed to die at the age of 85.
• General Tokarev, who supervised the execution of Poles in the prison entrusted to him,
  regularly sending daily reports to the Moscow authorities about how many prisoners were “executed” – did not shoot himself. He lived to be 91, and his portrait still hangs in the gallery of honorary Chekists in the Tver FSB Directorate.
• And what about Raikhman? Immediately after the war, he was already a lieutenant general, back in Lvov, as deputy head of the 2nd Main Directorate of the USSR MGB, leading operations against OUN units in the Baltics and Western Ukraine. And so on for another five years of sadism and executions.
  But on October 19, 1951, MGB chief Viktor Abakumov was arrested in connection with the “Zionist conspiracy in the MGB.” Beria hated him for his intelligence successes, envied him, and was afraid that Abakumov would take his place. That’s why he bit him to death and dragged him to the chopping block. Raikhman was arrested along with other people close to Abakumov. Raikhman was “snitched” on by his former subordinate, deputy head of the MGB investigative unit, blood relative Lev Shvartsman, a bone-breaking investigator. The snake bites its own tail.
• This Shvartsman was a smart investigator, he investigated the cases of the secretary of the Komsomol Kosarev, the writers Babel, Koltsov, the director Meyerhold, the former People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs Yezhov. He was honored by his own people, enjoyed their trust. In four years he rose from lieutenant to colonel of the State Security Service. Now he was arrested along with his boss Abakumov. They were both finished off by the executioner’s bullet.
  Shvartsman beat those he interrogated, but he himself was very afraid of pain. Therefore, he “gave up” everyone, and when he realized that he could not escape retribution, he began to play the fool, drool and bulge his eyes. But psychiatrists quickly cracked the malingerer. The conspiracy case involved 2 thousand people, most of whom received prison terms or were exiled.
• The arrested Raikhman spent eight months in solitary confinement in Lefortovo prison in handcuffs, which he later recalled with fury.
  The famous ballerina, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater, laureate of the Stalin Prize of the 1st degree in 1941, People’s Artist Olga Lepeshinskaya was Raikhman’s secret agent. The Chekist forced her to cohabit, which he legalized with a marriage contract. Apparently, the ballerina agreed, choosing the lesser of two evils.
  In those years, the “fashion” for ballerinas in the NKVD was introduced by Beria, whose appearance at the Bolshoi Theater meant that the master had come to choose a girl for the night. After Raikhman’s arrest, his “wife”, and in fact concubine, Lepeshinskaya renounced him.
  After Stalin’s death in March 1953 and the seizure of power in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Beria released Raikhman and appointed him head of the Control Inspectorate of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs to check the execution of orders of the USSR Minister of Internal Affairs. However, clouds were already gathering over Beria himself and his protégé Raikhman was removed from his post two months later and discharged into the reserve.
  On August 21, 1953, Raikhman was arrested again and held under investigation. He had managed to do so much that it took three years to investigate his crimes. Here are the words of the investigator who led the case:
  “Raikhman is a large and terrible beast, experienced, cunning, dexterous, one of the direct bearers and creators of lawlessness.”
  In August 1956, by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, for violations of socialist legality, by a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Raikhman was stripped of his general’s rank, convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison. But already in 1957 he was amnestied, released from prison, with the term of preliminary detention and working days taken into account. Quietly sent into retirement, to live out his days. A crow will not peck out another crow’s eye. He died in 1990, not spat upon, simply sent into oblivion.
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After the collapse of the Soviet system, the Kremlin ideologists present history as a propaganda myth, the essence of which lies in distorting the facts and whipping up hysteria. And this cacophony is getting louder, its goal is to fool the people and subordinate them to their plans, to keep them on a chain and not let them out of slavery. They know what they are doing and do not want to leave themselves, they threaten to drag all the living to the underworld. Today, all political scientists, including the “good Russians” who fled abroad, curse the Kremlin butt and hang all the dogs on him. And then they discuss the candidacies of his successors. They are all imperialists, yesterday’s servants of the regime and they are all thieves, sycophants and informers, servants of the regime.
I do not believe that the regime will be overthrown. The empire of the vatniks is tenacious, in it they will breed new ghouls and put another one on the throne, and the obliging academics will write new myths in the history of the fooled people and all of humanity.

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