Word: lubyanka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camps out of a bolt nut. Another, barely keeping back tears, asks for advice about how to discover what happened to her father. She had thought he died of pneumonia in a labor camp in the early 1950s, but has recently heard that he was shot in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison...
...went through the Lubyanka and Butyrka," Rybakov says, referring to the main prison processing centers in Moscow for political prisoners. From the Butyrka interrogation, which he describes in considerable detail in the novel, he was sent into exile in a series of villages in western Siberia. Rybakov shows a visitor photographs of himself as a handsome, dark-haired young man with laughing eyes. Then he shows photos of a grim, tired, middle-aged-looking man with dead eyes. "The difference was only one year between these pictures," he explains. "I was very depressed after the arrest, for I had done...
...develop a talent "to save," and I developed it, God knows. I tried to make sure that "manuscripts don't burn," to borrow a phrase from Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita -- and to make sure that Andrei's writing would not rot in the cellars of Lubyanka or some other prison...
...what is supposedly an official investigation of the anarchist's death. They (Tom Hewitt as the captain, Michael Jeter as the sergeant, Joe Palmieri as an inspector, Raymond Serra as the police chief) are basically cartoons of goons, the Four Stooges horsing around in the basement of the Lubyanka. Fo's jokes sometimes foozle aimlessly about the room like a balloon that jets on its own escaping air. An effort to give an essentially Italian product some American flavor has produced a dozen badly aimed, almost incompetent anti-Reagan cracks...
...Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB and, since 1954, the KGB, has been synonymous with terror and coercion. It brings to mind the worst excesses of the Stalinist period: the public show trials and confessions exacted through torture, the random arrests and midnight executions in the infamous Lubyanka prison. KGB "sleepers" penetrating to the heart of Western intelligence services are now a staple of espionage fiction, film?and reality. Reports that Bulgarian agents in Rome may have aided Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca in his attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in May 1981 have only added to Western...