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)
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 breats 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)
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. 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