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

were not physically strong enough for slave labour. The foreigners had
been caught in raids on their houses, in institutions and in the streets.
The captured foreigners were taken to concentration camps. What hap-
pened after the war in these concentration camps, including those in
Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen has been completely ignored by the
history books. Many of the terrible crimes committed in those camps were
later blamed on the Nazis. John Noble stated that 10 000 people from
different nations died as a result of malnutrition during a single year at
Buchenwald. He had discovered this from Soviet documents whilst wor-
king the camp's office. The prisoners' governments had betrayed and
forgotten them. Those crimes were also committed to smooth the way for
the expansion of Communism. The fates of those individuals were un-
interesting.
Foreign citizens in those Communist prison camps in Germany were
chargcd with "anti-Soviet activities". John Noble received a sentence of
15 years in a slave camp in Vorkuta. It was thought to be a destination
with no return. The foreign prisoners were transported to the Soviet Union
under strict secrecy. The Western political leaders were informed about
this but kept quiet.
In Vorkuta, there were a total of half a million slaves who worked in 40
coalmines, in cement and brick factories. A coal miner's average pro-
duction was 17 tons of coal per shift, a totally inhuman amount. Six-seven
people died each day. Their corpses were thrown into a mass grave. 15 per
cent of the prisoners were women and children. Among the slaves were
Americans, Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Estonians, Finns, Englishmen,
Japanese, Italians and others. Only the strongest survived.
After Stalin's death, General Maslennikov came to Vorkuta to find out
what the prisoners really thought about their lives there. No one would be
punished for what they said. There was no one who dared to say a word
about the matter.
The general continued to encourage the prisoners. Finally, a score of
men, including a former professor of history from Leningrad, stepped
forward. The ex-professor said: "I shall speak, even though I know I shall
be given another ten years of slave labour here for what I have to say."
Maslennikov assured him no such thing would happen to him. The
professor then summarised slavery through the ages and finished by
commenting on the slavery in the Soviet Union: "Never before has any
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