In Voronezh, seven nuns were boiled in a cauldron of tar. The bishop of Voronezh was boiled alive in a big pot; after which the monks, with revolvers aimed at their heads, were forced to drink this soup.
Priests were stripped naked, blasphemously married to sows, then nailed to the crucifix over the altar.
In Perm, the Cheka cut out the cheeks and eyes of a priest who was then paraded through the streets and was buried alive. The eyes of monks were poked out, their tongues were cut off, and they were buried alive or crucified.
In Tsaritsyn and Kamyshin, the hands of victims were amputated with a saw. In Poltava and Kremenchug, the victims were impaled. In Odessa, they were roasted alive in ovens or ripped to pieces.
In other places, the victim’s head was placed on an anvil and slowly crushed with a steam hammer. Those due to undergo the same punishment the next day were forced to watch.
In Kiev, Chekists put rats in cages placed against prisoners’ bellies, and then poked the rats with red-hot metal rods until the heat-maddened rats gnawed into the victims’ intestines. Then the victims were placed in coffins with a decomposing body and buried alive.
The Chekists in Kharkov placed the victims in a row and nailed their hands to a table, cut around their wrists with a knife, poured boiling water over the hands and pulled the skin off. This was called pulling off the glove. And they were scalped.
There were Chekists who cut open the stomachs of their victims, following which they pulled out a length of the small intestine & nailed it to a pole &, with a whip, forced the victim to run circles around the pole until the whole intestine had been unraveled & the victim died.
Chekists pushed burning cigars into the open eyes of victims until they were blinded; then they were impaled and roasted like a pig over an open fire.
The Chekists often arrested whole families and tortured the children before the eyes of their parents, and the wives before their husbands.
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U.S. media & others around the world are commemorating #CCP100Years, so let’s discuss the Cultural Revolution truthfully.
“During the Cultural Revolution, the collection of bullet fees had great symbolic value to revolutionaries.
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“Following the public trial & execution of Liu Wenhui as a counter revolutionary on March 27, 1967, a mob of “revolutionary rebels” and indignant neighbors led by an officer from the police station descended on his home shouting “down with” slogans…
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“while police collected a bullet fee from his mother. Likewise, after the execution of the musician Lu Hongen two days before that of Lin Zhao, the authorities demanded a bullet fee from his wife.
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Yemelyan Yaroslavsky was an Old #Bolshevik who, in 1901, had written for Iskra (The Spark), Lenin’s first revolutionary magazine. Yaroslavsky headed up the Society for the Friends of the Newspaper Bezbozhnik, later called The League of Militant Godless.
The League was a state–sanctioned vehicle: after churches were plundered, they were turned into warehouses or workshops, or sometimes bulldozed by members of the League.
Members of the Militant Godless League under Bolshevism destroyed icons and precious religious books, and conducted parades with mocking effigies of Christ and with actors blasphemously portraying God embracing a naked woman: the Virgin Mary.
Victor & his little sister, Anastasia, were asleep in the living room when the mob shattered the windows of their home. The Komsomol members swarmed into their homes & began pulling family portraits off the walls & breaking furniture, as they yelled “you filthy Kulaks!”
As the stunned family surveyed the damage after the mob left, one of their lifelong friends rushed in & shouted, “The church is burning!” The Ivanov family raced down the street to the village church where flames were shooting out of the broken windows.
In front of the burning church, communists were laughing & cheering at the bonfire they had made out of prayer books they had seized. The peasants dropped to their knees crying & begging them to stop. Wailing grew louder when communists grabbed a wooden cross & set it aflame.