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For instance, one girl (whose name I ca
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 ma
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, I
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 Si
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 i
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 ma
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,