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While I read the first two chapters in their entirety, I only read chapter 3 and skimmed chapters 4 and 5.

The non physical methods used by the interrogators are pretty much standard police procedure today, the lying, the taking quotes out of context, the twisting of words, the false promises, all of it is used by prosecutors across the US. From page 103 Solzhenitsyn starts a list of the different ways interrogators can psychologically abuse prisoners.

  1. Night

  2. Persuasion

  3. Abusive language

  4. Psychological Contrast

  5. Preliminary humiliation

  6. Confusion

  7. Intimidation

  8. Outright lies

  9. Threatening family

  10. Loud Noises

  11. Tickling

  12. A cigarette

  13. Light effects

14-19. Stress Positions

  1. Dehydration

  2. Sleep Deprivation

22-25. More stress Positions

  1. Starvation

27+ Beatings and more Stress Postiions.

And of course this all begins during the arrest. Of this list the only ones that are not employed by the US government today, are numbers 11, 12, 20, and 26. (at least as far as I know). Ordinary police use stress potions as immediate physical compliance, eg. take downs. The remainder, are present in virtually every arrest. Remember the arrest of Roger Stone? It used numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and probably more. And that was just the arrest.

As ever, never talk to the police.

On page 145 we again see that communist are far, far worse than Nazis:

The Gestapo accused him of Communist activities among Russian workers in Germany, and the MGB charged him with having ties to the international bourgeoisie. Divnich's verdict was unfavorable to the MGB. He was tortured by both, but the Gestapo was nonetheless trying to get at the truth. and when the accusation did not hold up. Divnich was released. The MGB wasn't interested in the truth and had no intention of letting anyone out of its grip once he was arrested.

The Nazis actually released him when they determined that he wasn't a commie. The commies of course don't care, they are on the "right side of history." Similarly, but not from this book, Witold Pilecki said to his wife during his trial in Poland after the war, paraphrased: Auschwitz was nothing compared to the Gulag. (This has been scrubbed from the internet.) Both of these taken together along with what we learned last week regarding "boxes of soap" really show that the Soviets, like all leftist, project. Every one of their accusations against Germany were actions they were undertaking.

On page 175 we can see the propaganda work even on someone who has suffed from the system. Solzhenitsyn says:

In that same period, by 1966, eighty-six thousand Nazi criminals had been convicted in West Germany. And still we choke with anger here. We do not hesitate to devote to the subject page after newspaper page and hour after hour of radio time. We even stay after work to attend protest meetings and vote: "Too few! Eighty-six thousand are too few. And twenty years is too little! It must go on and on."

Yet Solzhenitsyn does not consider the possibility that the other allied powers also used torture to get the convictions they wanted. Pretty much every Nazi officer that confessed was tortured. For instance: https://archive.md/CkEbO#selection-1229.0-1229.323

Of the 21 accused, 14 were hanged after a war-crimes trial in Hamburg. Many confessed only after being interrogated by Scotland and his men. In court, they protested that they had been starved, whipped and systematically beaten. Some said they had been menaced with red-hot pokers and ‘threatened with electrical devices’.

Such nobility, when you can't tell the difference between Comintern and NATO. But as always, it is only a warcrime if you lose.

2 years ago
5 score
Reason: None provided.

While I read the first two chapters in their entirety, I only read chapter 3 and skimmed chapters 4 and 5.

The non physical methods used by the interrogators are pretty much standard police procedure today, the lying, the taking quotes out of context, the twisting of words, the false promises, all of it is used by prosecutors across the US. From page 103 Solzhenitsyn starts a list of the different ways interrogators can psychologically abuse prisoners.

  1. Night

  2. Persuasion

  3. Abusive language

  4. Psychological Contrast

  5. Preliminary humiliation

  6. Confusion

  7. Intimidation

  8. Outright lies

  9. Threatening family

  10. Loud Noises

  11. Tickling

  12. A cigarette

  13. Light effects

14-19. Stress Positions

  1. Dehydration

  2. Sleep Deprivation

22-25. More stress Positions

  1. Starvation

27+ Beatings and more Stress Postiions.

And of course this all begins during the arrest. Of this list the only ones that are not employed by the US government today, are numbers 11, 12, 20, and 26. (at least as far as I know). Ordinary police use stress potions as immediate physical compliance, eg. take downs. The remainder, are present in virtually every arrest. Remember the arrest of Roger Stone? It used numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and probably more. And that was just the arrest.

As ever, never talk to the police.

On page 145 we again see that communist are far, far worse than Nazis:

The Gestapo accused him of Communist activities among Russian workers in Germany, and the MGB charged him with having ties to the international bourgeoisie. Divnich's verdict was unfavorable to the MGB. He was tortured by both, but the Gestapo was nonetheless trying to get at the truth. and when the accusation did not hold up. Divnich was released. The MGB wasn't interested in the truth and had no intention of letting anyone out of its grip once he was arrested.

The Nazis actually released him when they determined that he wasn't a commie. The commies of course don't care, they are on the "right side of history." Similarly, but not from this book, Witold Pilecki said to his wife during his trial in Poland after the war, paraphrased: Auschwitz was nothing compared to the Gulag. (This has been scrubbed from the internet.) Both of these taken together along with what we learned last week regarding "boxes of soap" really show that the Soviets, like all leftist, project. Every one of their accusations against Germany were actions they were undertaking.

On page 175 we can see the propaganda work even on someone who has suffed from the system. Solzhenitsyn say:

In that same period, by 1966, eighty-six thousand Nazi criminals had been convicted in West Germany. And still we choke with anger here. We do not hesitate to devote to the subject page after newspaper page and hour after hour of radio time. We even stay after work to attend protest meetings and vote: "Too few! Eighty-six thousand are too few. And twenty years is too little! It must go on and on."

Yet Solzhenitsyn does not consider the possibility that the other allied powers also used torture to get the convictions they wanted. Pretty much every Nazi officer that confessed was tortured. For instance: https://archive.md/CkEbO#selection-1229.0-1229.323

Of the 21 accused, 14 were hanged after a war-crimes trial in Hamburg. Many confessed only after being interrogated by Scotland and his men. In court, they protested that they had been starved, whipped and systematically beaten. Some said they had been menaced with red-hot pokers and ‘threatened with electrical devices’.

Such nobility, when you can't tell the difference between Comintern and NATO. But as always, it is only a warcrime if you lose.

2 years ago
2 score
Reason: None provided.

While I read the first two chapters in their entirety, I only read chapter 3 and skimmed chapters 4 and 5.

The non physical methods used by the interrogators are pretty much standard police procedure today, the lying, the taking quotes out of context, the twisting of words, the false promises, all of it is used by prosecutors across the US. From page 103 Solzhenitsyn starts a list of the different ways interrogators can psychologically abuse prisoners.

  1. Night

  2. Persuasion

  3. Abusive language

  4. Psychological Contrast

  5. Preliminary humiliation

  6. Confusion

  7. Intimidation

  8. Outright lies

  9. Threatening family

  10. Loud Noises

  11. Tickling

  12. A cigarette

  13. Light effects

14-19. Stress Positions

  1. Dehydration

  2. Sleep Deprivation

22-25. More stress Positions

  1. Starvation

27+ Beatings and more Stress Postiions.

And of course this all begins during the arrest. Of this list the only ones that are not employed by the US government today, are numbers 11, 12, 20, and 26. (at least as far as I know). Ordinary police use stress potions as immediate physical compliance, eg. take downs. The remainder, are present in virtually every arrest. Remember the arrest of Roger Stone? It used numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and probably more. And that was just the arrest.

As ever, never talk to the police.

On page 145 we again see that communist are far, far worse than Nazis:

The Gestapo accused him of Communist activities among Russian workers in Germany, and the MGB charged him with having ties to the international bourgeoisie. Divnich's verdict was unfavorable to the MGB. He was tortured by both, but the Gestapo was nonetheless trying to get at the truth. and when the accusation did not hold up. Divnich was released. The MGB wasn't interested in the truth and had no intention of letting anyone out of its grip once he was arrested.

The Nazis actually released him when they determined that he wasn't a commie. The commies of course don't care, they are on the "right side of history." Similarly, but not from this book, Witold Pilecki said to his wife during his trial in Poland after the war, paraphrased: Auschwitz was nothing compared to the Gulag. (This has been scrubbed from the internet.) Both of these taken together along with what we learned last week regarding "boxes of soap" really show that the Soviets, like all leftist, project. Every one of their accusations against Germany were actions they were undertaking.

On page 175 we can see the propaganda work even on someone who has suffed from the system. Solzhenitsyn say:

In that same period, by 1966, eighty-six thousand Nazi criminals had been convicted in West Germany. And still we choke with anger here. We do not hesitate to devote to the subject page after newspaper page and hour after hour of radio time. We even stay after work to attend protest meetings and vote: "Too few! Eighty-six thousand are too few. And twenty years is too little! It must go on and on."

Yet he does not consider the possibility that the other allied powers also used torture to get the convictions they wanted. Pretty much every Nazi officer that confessed was tortured. For instance: https://archive.md/CkEbO#selection-1229.0-1229.323

Of the 21 accused, 14 were hanged after a war-crimes trial in Hamburg. Many confessed only after being interrogated by Scotland and his men. In court, they protested that they had been starved, whipped and systematically beaten. Some said they had been menaced with red-hot pokers and ‘threatened with electrical devices’.

Such nobility, when you can't tell the difference between Comintern and NATO. But as always, it is only a warcrime if you lose.

2 years ago
2 score
Reason: None provided.

While I read the first two chapters in their entirety, I only read chapter 3 and skimmed chapters 4 and 5.

The non physical methods used by the interrogators are pretty much standard police procedure today, the lying, the taking quotes out of context, the twisting of words, the false promises, all of it is used by prosecutors across the US. From page 103 Solzhenitsyn starts a list of the different ways interrogators can psychologically abuse prisoners.

  1. Night

  2. Persuasion

  3. Abusive language

  4. Psychological Contrast

  5. Preliminary humiliation

  6. Confusion

  7. Intimidation

  8. Outright lies

  9. Threatening family

  10. Loud Noises

  11. Tickling

  12. A cigarette

  13. Light effects

14-19. Stress Positions

  1. Dehydration

  2. Sleep Deprivation

22-25. More stress Positions

  1. Starvation

27+ Beatings and more Stress Postiions.

And of course this all begins during the arrest. Of this list the only ones that are not employed by the US government today, are numbers 11, 12, 20, and 26. (at least as far as I know). Ordinary police use stress potions as immediate physical compliance, eg. take downs. The remainder, are present in virtually every arrest. Remember the arrest of Roger Stone? It used numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and probably more. And that was just the arrest.

As ever, never talk to the police.

On page 145 we again see that communist are far, far worse than Nazis:

The Gestapo accused him of Communist activities among Russian workers in Germany, and the MGB charged him with having ties to the international bourgeoisie. Divnich's verdict was unfavorable to the MGB. He was tortured by both, but the Gestapo was nonetheless trying to get at the truth. and when the accusation did not hold up. Divnich was released. The MGB wasn't interested in the truth and had no intention of letting anyone out of its grip once he was arrested.

The Nazis actually released him when they determined that he wasn't a commie. The commies of course don't care, they are on the "right side of history." Similarly, but not from this book, Witold Pilecki said to his wife during his trial in Poland after the war, paraphrased: Auschwitz was nothing compared to the Gulag. (This has been scrubbed from the internet.) Both of these taken together along with what we learned last week regarding "boxes of soap" really show that the Soviets, like all leftist, project. Every one of their accusations against Germany were actions they were undertaking.

On page 175 we can see the propaganda work even on someone who has suffed from the system. Solzhenitsyn say:

In that same period, by 1966, eighty-six thousand Nazi criminals had been convicted in West Germany. And still we choke with anger here. We do not hesitate to devote to the subject page after newspaper page and hour after hour of radio time. We even stay after work to attend protest meetings and vote: "Too few! Eighty-six thousand are too few. And twenty years is too little! It must go on and on."

Yet he does not consider the possibility that the other allied powers also used torture to get the convictions they wanted. Pretty much every Nazi officer that confessed was tortured. For instance: https://archive.md/CkEbO#selection-1229.0-1229.323

Of the 21 accused, 14 were hanged after a war-crimes trial in Hamburg. Many confessed only after being interrogated by Scotland and his men. In court, they protested that they had been starved, whipped and systematically beaten. Some said they had been menaced with red-hot pokers and ‘threatened with electrical devices’.

Such nobility, when you can't tell the difference between Comintern and NATO. But as always it is only a warcrime if you lose.

2 years ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

While I read the first two chapters in their entirety, I only read chapter 3 and skimmed chapters 4 and 5.

The non physical methods used by the interrogators are pretty much standard police procedure today, the lying, the taking quotes out of context, the twisting of words, the false promises, all of it is used by prosecutors across the US. From page 103 Solzhenitsyn starts a list of the different ways interrogators can psychologically abuse prisoners.

  1. Night

  2. Persuasion

  3. Abusive language

  4. Psychological Contrast

  5. Preliminary humiliation

  6. Confusion

  7. Intimidation

  8. Outright lies

  9. Threatening family

  10. Loud Noises

  11. Tickling

  12. A cigarette

  13. Light effects

14-19. Stress Positions

  1. Dehydration

  2. Sleep Deprivation

22-25. More stress Positions

  1. Starvation

27+ Beatings and more Stress Postiions.

And of course this all begins during the arrest. Of this list the only ones that are not employed by the US government today, are numbers 11, 12, 20, and 26. (at least as far as I know). Ordinary police use stress potions as immediate physical compliance, eg. take downs. The remainder, are present in virtually every arrest. Remember the arrest of Roger Stone? It used numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and probably more. And that was just the arrest.

As ever, never talk to the police.

On page 145 we again see that communist are far, far worse than Nazis:

The Gestapo accused him of Communist activities among Russian workers in Germany, and the MGB charged him with having ties to the international bourgeoisie. Divnich's verdict was unfavorable to the MGB. He was tortured by both, but the Gestapo was nonetheless trying to get at the truth. and when the accusation did not hold up. Divnich was released. The MGB wasn't interested in the truth and had no intention of letting anyone out of its grip once he was arrested.

The Nazis actually released him when they determined that he wasn't a commie. The commies of course don't care, they are on the "right side of history." Similarly, but not from this book, Witold Pilecki said to his wife during his trial in Poland after the war, paraphrased: Auschwitz was nothing compared to the Gulag. (This has been scrubbed from the internet.) Both of these taken together along with what we learned last week regarding "boxes of soap" really show that the Soviets, like all leftist, project. Every one of their accusations against Germany were actions they were undertaking.

On page 175 we can see the propaganda work even on someone who has suffed from the system. Solzhenitsyn say:

In that same period, by 1966, eighty-six thousand Nazi criminals had been convicted in West Germany.22 And still we choke with anger here. We do not hesitate to devote to the subject page after newspaper page and hour after hour of radio time. We even stay after work to attend protest meetings and vote: "Too few! Eighty-six thousand are too few. And twenty years is too little! It must go on and on."

Yet he does not consider the possibility that the other allied powers also used torture to get the convictions they wanted. Pretty much every Nazi officer that confessed was tortured. For instance: https://archive.md/CkEbO#selection-1229.0-1229.323

Of the 21 accused, 14 were hanged after a war-crimes trial in Hamburg. Many confessed only after being interrogated by Scotland and his men. In court, they protested that they had been starved, whipped and systematically beaten. Some said they had been menaced with red-hot pokers and ‘threatened with electrical devices’.

Such nobility, when you can't tell the difference between Comintern and NATO. But as always it is only a warcrime if you lose.

2 years ago
1 score
Reason: Original

While I read the first two chapters in their entirety, I only read chapter 3 and skimmed chapters 4 and 5.

The non physical methods used by the interrogators are pretty much standard police procedure today, the lying, the taking quotes out of context, the twisting of words, the false promises, all of it is used by prosecutors across the US. From page 103 Solzhenitsyn starts a list of the different ways interrogators can psychologically abuse prisoners.

  1. Night

  2. Persuasion

  3. Abusive language

  4. Psychological Contrast

  5. Preliminary humiliation

  6. Confusion

  7. Intimidation

  8. Outright lies

  9. Threatening family

  10. Loud Noises

  11. Tickling

  12. A cigarette

  13. Light effects

14-19. Stress Positions

  1. Dehydration

  2. Sleep Deprivation

22-25. More stress Positions

  1. Starvation

27+ Beatings and more Stress Postiions.

And of course this all begins during the arrest. Of this list the only ones that are not employed by the US government today, are numbers 11, 12, 20, and 26. (at least as far as I know). Ordinary police use stress potions as immediate physical compliance, eg. take downs. The remainder, are present in virtually every arrest. Remember the arrest of Roger Stone? It used numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and probably more. And that was just the arrest.

As ever, never talk to the police.

On page 145 we again see that communist are far, far worse than Nazis:

The Gestapo accused him of Communist activities among Russian workers in Germany, and the MGB charged him with having ties to the international bourgeoisie. Divnich's verdict was unfavorable to the MGB. He was tortured by both, but the Gestapo was nonetheless trying to get at the truth. and when the accusation did not hold up. Divnich was released. The MGB wasn't interested in the truth and had no intention of letting anyone out of its grip once he was arrested.

The Nazis actually released him when they determined that he wasn't a commie. The commies of course don't care, they are on the "right side of history." Similarly, but not from this book, Witold Pilecki said to his wife, paraphrased: Auschwitz was nothing compared to the Gulag. (This has been scrubbed from the internet.) Both of these taken together along with what we learned last week regarding "boxes of soap" really show that the Soviets, like all leftist, project. Every one of their accusations against Germany were actions they were undertaking.

On page 175 we can see the propaganda work even on someone who has suffed from the system. Solzhenitsyn say:

In that same period, by 1966, eighty-six thousand Nazi criminals had been convicted in West Germany.22 And still we choke with anger here. We do not hesitate to devote to the subject page after newspaper page and hour after hour of radio time. We even stay after work to attend protest meetings and vote: "Too few! Eighty-six thousand are too few. And twenty years is too little! It must go on and on."

Yet he does not consider the possibility that the other allied powers also used torture to get the convictions they wanted. Pretty much every Nazi officer that confessed was tortured. For instance: https://archive.md/CkEbO#selection-1229.0-1229.323

Of the 21 accused, 14 were hanged after a war-crimes trial in Hamburg. Many confessed only after being interrogated by Scotland and his men. In court, they protested that they had been starved, whipped and systematically beaten. Some said they had been menaced with red-hot pokers and ‘threatened with electrical devices’.

Such nobility, when you can't tell the difference between Comintern and NATO. But as always it is only a warcrime if you lose.

2 years ago
1 score