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

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man who destroyed <strong>the</strong> bodies with sulphuric acid was <strong>of</strong>ficially called<br />

Pinkus Voikov (actually Pinkhus Weiner). He was a 30-year-old Jewish<br />

chemist, who had also taken part in <strong>the</strong> preparations for <strong>the</strong> murder. He<br />

later stole a ru<strong>by</strong> ring from <strong>the</strong> finger <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> corpses, wore it and<br />

was very proud <strong>of</strong> it. He was murdered in 1927 in Warsaw.<br />

The highest party chief <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Urals and Siberia, <strong>the</strong> 42-year-old Jew<br />

Shaya Goloshchokin, who was a close friend <strong>of</strong> Yakov Sverdlov and had<br />

never previously worked in his life, also took an active part in <strong>the</strong> planning<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> murders. The historian V. Burtsev, who has investigated <strong>the</strong><br />

revolutionary movement, described him as a degenerate type and a cruel<br />

executioner. He later led <strong>the</strong> liquidation campaign against <strong>the</strong> Kazakh<br />

people.<br />

It was he, according to <strong>the</strong> historian Oleg Platonov, who brought several<br />

strange boxes to Moscow at <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> July 1918. Those boxes, according<br />

to a discussion in Sovnarkom, contained <strong>the</strong> heads <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Tsar and his<br />

family preserved in alcohol jars. After Lenin's death, a commission found<br />

<strong>the</strong> head <strong>of</strong> Tsar Nicholas II preserved in alcohol in his filing cabinet.<br />

(Vladimir Soloukhin, "In <strong>the</strong> Light <strong>of</strong> Day", Moscow, 1992, p. 217.)<br />

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