Word: lubyanka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between Dzerzhinsky Street and Little Lubyanka Street in the heart of Moscow, on Furkasovsky Alley, stands a new yellow brick, nine-story building, resplendent with black marble pilasters. Sentries are posted at the doors. Up and down, the Alley plainclothesmen saunter with studied unconcern. This is the home of the all-powerful EKU (Ekonomicheskoe Upravlenie), economic division of NKVD...
...heard about Russians kept in slave labor camps ranged from 3 to 15 million. Usually the state does not bother to hide slave laborers (Russian or foreign); they are seen working everywhere. Only in Moscow are there occasional attempts to hide ugly facts. Once I drove past notorious Lubyanka prison with an Intourist guide. I asked deliberately: "What is that large, impressive building over there?" "Oh," she replied, "people live there...