Executioners and Victims

Executioners and Victims

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PROSECUTOR: You confirm the fact that you wrote denunciations against Soviet citizens?

THE INFORMERS: Yes, in a way.

PROSECUTOR: Do you admit you are guilty of the deaths of innocent Soviet citizens?

INFORMERS: No, we categorically deny it. The state had foredoomed those people to death, and our work, so to speak, was concerned only with the superficial framework. In essence, no matter what and how we wrote, whether we accused these people or dec...