"We will eradicate Spies"
"We will eradicate spies and Diversionists, Agents of the Trokyite - Bukharinite Fascists!"
NKVD poster 1937
The NKVD broke prisoners down by intense interrogation. This included the threat to arrest and execute members of the prisoner's family if they did not confess. The interrogation went on for several days and nights and eventually they(the prisoners) became so exhausted and disoriented that they signed confessions agreeing that they had been attempting to overthrow the government.
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