"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

THROUGH THE LABYRINTH OF MURDER
It was the morning of the 30th of August 1918. A cyclist turned up in
Petrograd's Palace Square at around nine o'clock. He stopped at house
number 6, the headquarters of the Commune Commissariat for Internal
Affairs and the Extra-Ordinary Commission, the Cheka. This terror
organisation had been founded on December 7th, 1917, but officially it did
not exist. Only on the 18th December 1927 did Pravda publish the decree
officially establishing the Cheka. The cyclist was a young man wearing a
leather jacket and an officer's cap. He left his bicycle by the door and
entered.
It was reception day at the Commissariat for Internal Affairs. The
visitors were waiting in the hall and did not notice the young man who sat
down near the outer door.
Moisei Uritsky (actually Boretsky) arrived in his car at around ten
o'clock. He was the chairman of the Petrograd Cheka. Uritsky became
infamous as the "Butcher of Petrograd". He threatened to kill all Russians
who spoke their native language well. He claimed there was no greater
pleasure than watching monarchists die, according to Igor Bunich ("The
Party's Gold", St. Petersburg, 1992) and Oleg Platonov ("The History of
the Russian People in the Twentieth Century", Moscow, 1997, p. 613).
Uritsky had executed 5000 officers with his own hands. Now he quickly
walked towards the lift door. Suddenly several shots were heard. It was the
young man in the leather jacket who had approached Uritsky and shot him
in his head and body. Uritsky collapsed. The murderer ran out into the
street, jumped on his bicycle and began pedalling as fast as he could.
When they began to chase him by car, he threw away his bicycle and
ran into the British Representation. He left the representation after having
donned a longcoat. When he saw Red Guards, he opened fire but was
quickly overpowered.
This was the official description of Moisei Uritsky's murder. The
suspect was a 22-year-old Jewish student of technology, Leonid Kanne-
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