The Soviet punitive system was the heir of literally hundreds of years of secret police interrogation. For centuries, the Czar’s secret police had tortured, refined, and perfected the art of interrogation – all of it based on practice – not theory. That is why American researchers were so amazed at the Soviet interrogation success rate. In the 1950s, professional researchers, trained social and medical scientists, wrote reports in obvious reverential respect for the Communist repression and interrogation system. And it’s that refined and perfected system I’m going to present to you today, a system that lasted and probably still lasts, longer than any other torture institution in human history.
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