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

Lazar Kaganovich and his accomplices were ultimately responsible for
the deaths of nearly 15 million people during the great famine. If we add a
further 15 million - the number of those who died during the collectivi-
sation, we see that Kaganovich and his gang of bandits destroyed nearly
30 million human lives in just a few years. But not even that appalling
mountain of victims seems to have satisfied Stalin's or Kaganovich's thirst
for blood.
Therefore, in 1932, they also began the first massive wave of terror
since Lenin's death. Most of those who were sent to forced-labour camps
were thereby practically sentenced to death. Already in 1921, Lenin and
Trotsky had built the Kholmogory death-camp near Arkhangelsk, where
prisoners were slowly killed and constantly replaced. Kaganovich used the
same method. It usually took just two weeks to kill the weakest prisoners.
Many of the inmates in "normal" camps were later sentenced to death by
shooting, either by special "revolutionary" tribunals or by instruction from
the NKVD. There were also special elimination camps, where prisoners
were sent in a steady stream to be killed.
I must point out here that a large number of prisoners never even
reached their camps due to the immensely cruel treatment they received.
For example, the Jewish administrators had worked out the following
method: the train was stopped at some station where the temperature was
20 degrees below zero and everyone was commanded to undress. The
prisoners were then "showered" with ice-cold water from hoses. The
soldiers shouted: "Lovely steam!" (Rahva Haal, 12th of July 1989.)
This terror knew no limits. When all the jigsaw pieces are finally in
place, we are faced with the most horrible picture of reality I have ever
heard or read about. Dante's "Inferno" is child's play by comparison.
The Great Terror
By 1937, another 18 million people besides the 30 million who had been
eliminated during the collectivisation and the famine had lost their lives as
a result of Kaganovich's wave of terror. It was still not enough. There
were still "too many people" left. That was why the great terror was begun
in 1937. People were executed in waves, according to the historian Dmitri
Yurasov. One such wave occurred in Moscow and Leningrad on the 30th
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