Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum

Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum

Author:Anne Applebaum [Applebaum, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-385-53643-1
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-29T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter 12

INTERNAL ENEMIES

The Party promises only one thing: after the victory, one day when it can do no more harm, the material of the secret archives will be published. Then the world will learn what was in the background of this Punch and Judy show …

—Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon, 19411

A person that’s beaten will give the kind of confession that the interrogating agents want, will admit that he is an English or an American spy or whatever we want. But it will never be possible to know the truth this way.

—Lavrentii Beria, speaking at a secret Politburo meeting after Stalin’s death in 1953, from archival documents published after 19912



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