... accused Bolsheviks confessed their supposed crimes. Only later did the world discover that these confessions were elicited after long months of psychological torture and physical abuse. All of the confessors were sentenced to death. The following year, another group of old Bolsheviks were subjected to the same treatment. (It is important to note that Stalin stood directly behind these trials--he delegated ... and even going so far as to return German Communists who had sought sanctuary in the Soviet Union. (These luckless men and women went straight to concentration camps.) All through ...

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