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the NKVD bullets, but this was a very dangerous thing to do before

all the bolsheviks 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 yard.

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)

(15) Executed 180 persons.

Andriy Vodopyan

CRIME IN STALINE

In this city 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)

(16) Had their breasts cut off.

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 breasts 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)

(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.