The Soviet Story

VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY

Soviet dissident

NORMAN D AVIES historian,

Cambridge University

NIKOLAY MELNIK survivor of the 1932/33

Famine Potatoes, beets, cabbages.

Salted cabbages were taken

by the whole barrel.

All edible goods were taken away.

Everything!

VOLODIMIR SERGIYCHUK historian, University

of Kiev When the food was taken away,

peasants were also forbidden

to seek it elsewhere.

To buy, exchange or earn.

BORISS SOKOLOV historian They were dying.

And they were not allowed into the cities.

Special guard-squads prevented these

dying, starving people from

boarding the trains.

Many died right by the railways

leading to Kharkov, Kiev...

They entered a house and asked:

"where are your dead?"

There was only a half-dead

woman laying in the bed.

They said:

"Let's take her! She will die anyway. "

"Why come after her tomorrow?"

She begged them:
"Don't take me.

I am still alive! I want to live!"

MARIA ZAGUTS survivor of the

They were all dumped into the grave.

The ground was moving.

This is a sacred place for me.

Because it is the resting

place of the Famine victims,

including my close relatives,

my grandmother.

PIERRE RIGOULOT historian,

Institut d'histoire Sociale, Paris

We must create a new man.

And a new life form

should appear!

FRANOISE THOM professor

of Modern History, Sorbonne

GEORGE WATSON literary

historian, Cambridge University

VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY

Soviet dissident

FRANOISE THOM professor

of Modern History, Sorbonne

You must all know half

a dozen of people at least,

who are of no use in this world.

Who are more trouble

than they are worth.

Just put them there and say:

"Now will you be kind enough

to justify your existence?"

"If you can't justify your existence,

if you are not producing as much as

you consume or preferably more,

then clearly we cannot use our society

for the purpose of keeping you alive.

Because your life does not benefit us

and it can't be of very

much use to yourself.

Let's go and denounce them!

Then we can denounce even more

of them, the ones who are left.

Don't be afraid to do it.

ALEXANDER GURYANOV "Memorial" society, Moscow In the 1930s

the technology of murder and executions was introduced.

Every administrative region

had a designated area

where corpses were to be buried.

A person was taken down

a corridor to the, Red corner"

There was the final ID check.

The victim had to identify himself.

Then he was led to that room.

When he entered, he was shot.

NIC OLAS WERTH co-author

of"The Black book of C ommunism"

VLADIMIR KARPOV former Soviet Colonel

Khrushchev asked to increase his quota!

He was allowed

to kill 7 or 8 thousand, enemies"

He asked:

"Please increase my quota to 17000."

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Soviet president Stalin

was awash in blood! I saw the death sentences,

which he signed in packages.

Together with Molotov,

Voroshilov, Kaganovich and Zhdanov.

They were the five most active.

Molotov would always add:

change "10 years" to "execution".

Packages!

NATALIA LEBEDEVA historian As a result, in

NATALIA LEBEDEVA historian As a result, in

Can you imagine

the scale of repression

against their own people?!

VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY

Soviet dissident

SERGEY SLUCH historian According

to all norms of international law,

the decision of the Soviet

Government to invade Poland

was a clear act of aggression.

Red Army in 1939

NORMAN D AVIES historian,

Cambridge University

Initially, Ribentropp's proposal

did not contain it.

However strange it may seem,

the initiator of this

secret protocol was Stalin.

But we denied it, because

it was so aggressive,

the Communist party

could not have signed it.

So, we denied it up to the last day!

ARI VATAN EN Member of

the European Parliament

When Berlin made the decision

to stop using this base,

German Admiral Raeder

sent a letter to the Commander

of the Soviet Navy, Kuznetsov,

expressing deep gratitude for services

provided to the German Navy.

PIERRE RIGOULOT historian,

Institut d'histoire Sociale, Paris

VIKTOR SUVOROV former Soviet Secret Agent

A delegation of Gestapo came to the USSR

to learn how to build

concentration camps.

It is in German...

Beria's signature...

Translation from the German:

Reichsfhrer SS, Chief of

the Security Main Office.

Berlin, Nov. 3, 1938.

With this warrant, my representative

Standartenfhrer SS Mueller is given

the authority to sign an agreement

in Moscow on coordinated activities

between the NKVD and

the Security Main Office of Germany,

on which we put high expectations

related to strengthening the peace

and security between our countries.

Gruppenfhrer SS Heydrich.

Attach to the main document.

Lavrenty Beria.

A secret agreement was signed

between KGB and Gestapo.

About collaboration.

They accused me of lying,

claiming that it was not true.

We could not have signed

such an agreement.

NATALIA LEBEDEVA historian This contradiction is

amazing! While it is accepted that Stalin's regime

was criminal, exception is

made for the foreign affairs.

If a regime is criminal, then

it acts criminally in all areas,

including foreign affairs.

This should be accepted once and for all!

The NKVD will propose to

the Soviet Government

a program

to reduce the participation

of Jews in State bodies,

and to prohibit Jews

from the areas of culture

and education.

Chief of GUGB of the Commissariat

for Internal Affairs.

Beria.

Representative of the Chief of the

Security Main Office of Germany,

Mueller.

This was a real war.

A war against Jewish Fascism

within the country.

BORISS SOKOLOV historian... because

being a Jew, Litvinov was not fit

for signing any agreement

with Germany.

NORMAN D AVIES historian,

Cambridge University

Stalin's police, the GPU has fallen

to the level of the Nazi Gestapo.

VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY

Soviet dissident

Politburo CK VKPb

took the decision

to shoot all prisoners of war

from these 3 camps.

Major Soprunenko who was

carrying out executions in Katyn

VIKTOR SUVOROV former Soviet Secret Agent

was decorated with the Medal of Honor.

But Serov,

the later chief of the KGB,

for the shooting of Polish officers,

he was awarded the order of Lenin,

the highest State decoration.

I swear to obey the orders

of the Commander-in-Chief,

Adolph Hitler.

But if among us there will

appear provocateurs,

we ourselves will deal

with them ruthlessly.

EMMA KORPA GULAG survivor... and then

we dragged the sledges to the graveyard.

When my son was dragged,

the guards were not on duty.

Children were not

considered inmates,

so they were buried in

a civilian graveyard.

And when another child died,

I dragged him as well.

Then I got a chance to visit my son's

grave for the last time...

CHRISTOPHER BEAZLEY historian,

Member of the European Parliament

INESE VAIDERE Member of the

European Parliament, Latvia

RITA PAPINA survivor of the Soviet terror...

we went out. There was a big puddle of blood.

We collected it in a glass jar.

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