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

Examined".) Revelations about the real situation were regarded as libel by
the American press.
Western observers were also quite happy with the Jewish Chief Prose-
cutor Andrei Vyshinsky, who used to begin his appeals with the phrase:
"Shoot the mad dogs!" The Danish Communist author Martin Andersen-
Nexo wrote about Vyshinsky: "The prosecutor's appeal was highly con-
vincing and the sentence absolutely just!"
The British author George Bernard Shaw dismissed the bestial
behaviour of the Bolsheviks by saying that primitive Russia needed to be
subjected to force from above. He claimed that certain nations had the
right to exterminate so-called undesirable elements among the people. He
even recommended Stalin for the Nobel Peace Prize after a visit to Russia
in 1931 (Svenska Dagbladet, 13th of September 1991).
Stalin felt no compassion, even for his own comrades, least of all when
he felt threatened. People's commissary Grigori (Sergo) Ordzhonikidze
demanded an end to the mass terror on the 16th of February 1937.
Ordzhonikidze said: "You are insane. Now I know that..." On the 18th of
February, Stalin sent Chekists to his home. They informed him that he had
the choice of shooting himself or dying in the NKVD basement.
Ordzhonikidze had no way out. He officially committed suicide and Stalin
publicly cried over his death. Stalin was a good actor. (Abdurakhman
Avtrokhanov, "The Technology of Power", Frankfurt am Main, 1976, p.
422.)
Raskolnikov, another naive old Bolshevik, protested. He remained
abroad and sent a letter to the general secretary: "You should be put on
trial, Comrade Stalin, as an instigator of famine, a vandal, traitor to the
revolution and as the executioner of the intelligentsia, the army and of
science!"
Stalin continued with his "perestroika". Nikolai Yezhov, meanwhile,
became ever more troublesome. He was known as an alcoholic and also
used other drugs. When Stalin had to choose a new chief of the terror, he
had a choice between Yezhov and Beria. He chose Yezhov, who had
impressed him by hitting Sokolnikov (Brilliant) in his face at a meeting of
the Central Committee. This, Yezhov's argument, won Stalin's appre-
ciation. Yezhov was promoted to be Stalin's closest aide. Yezhov felt
threatcned by Lavrenti Beria, so he began, as chief of the NKVD, to
collect compromising information about the latter. He also tried to
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