Word: ivanov
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...induced to sign a false confession and declare at a public trial that he had plotted to murder "No. 1"-Stalin. Penalty: "physical liquidation." The men who succeeded in making old Rubashov confess ("To have laid out a Rubashov meant the beginning of a great career") were GPU Inquisitors Ivanov and Gletkin. Ivanov had been Rubashov's former schoolmate, former battalion commander. He drank, he doped a little, "but the vice of pity I have up till now managed to avoid. The smallest dose of it, and you are lost. . . . The temptations of God were always more dangerous...
...Ivanov was against using the "hard method" on Rubashov. "When Rubashov capitulates," Ivanov told Gletkin, "it won't be out of cowardice, but by logic. It is no use trying the hard method with him. He is made of a certain material which becomes the tougher the more you hammer...
...wouldn't like to fall into your hands'" said Ivanov, smilingly, but with a trace of uneasiness. Later...