Blood-thirsty Bolshevism and Article 58

Enemies of the People, Traitors, Subversives, Anti-Bolsheviks, and the Vilification of Dissident Russians

Posted on 2021-07-16 by Emmanuel Isaiah Smith

* Article 58 of the Penal Code of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of 25th February 1927, dealt with anti-Soviet activities, counter-revolutionary activities, treason, espionage, undermining of state industry and transport (sabotage), terrorism, non-reporting of counter-revolutionary activities, etc. Prisoners convicted under Article 58 were known as ‘political prisoners’, their sentences were usually long (up to twenty-five years) and could be extended without trial. Used by Lenin as early as the decree of 28th November 1917, the phrase ‘enemy of the people’, was a loose term that could be applied to anyone the authorities conceived as a threat. ‘Enemies of the people’ were imprisoned, expelled or executed. Their relatives and friends also fell under suspicion and could be sent to the Gulag as ‘Family Members of Traitors of the Motherland’. Family Members of Traitors of the Motherland’ and the ‘Socially Dangerous’* had to register with the NKVD- MVD. These were relatives of the ‘enemies of the people’, exiled without trial to the northern and north-eastern regions. They lived there in conditions of cold and hunger and died by the thousands. The Gestapo, the bloody younger brother of the NKVD, never matured enough to adopt the notion of ‘universal wrathful condemnation of the enemies of the Fatherland’, and it lagged far behind in terms of ‘labour efficiency’. A Russian dissident is rallying fellow workers against the system of sabotage, espionage, reporting, and antagonism that has been heaped upon their shoulders by the Bolsheviks.By order of the NKVD, workers’ meetings were held at factories, plants, kolkhozes, scientific institutes and educational institutions throughout the country. At these meetings people took the stage to publicly condemn ‘spies, wreckers, and saboteurs in the pay of international intelligence’, who had been exposed by the NKVD. They demanded they be exterminated ‘like a pack of wild dogs’. Many of those who stood on the podium soon became part of the pack ‘wild dogs’ themselves, and were executed by firing squad.” * During Stalin’s many purges some of his most loyal followers fell victim to his deadly paranoia. His ruthless cleansing of (mostly imagined) political opposition, was a constant feature of his regime. No one was immune, including those who had previously denounced others. “We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — “true conformity” is possible only in the cemetery.’ Joseph Stalin, ‘Our purposes’, Pravda, 22 January 1912. The Gulag, created on 10th June, 1934 by a decree of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Millions of people died through purges, genocide and apartheid, in the name of the bright future. The alphabetical list (far from complete) of the cities and settlements, near which were located ITL (Corrective Labour Camps), OLP (Separate Camp Points), sharashkas (secret R&AMP;D laboratories in the Gulag system), komandirovkas,* construction sites, service centres, columns, roads, OKB (Special Design Offices), ITK (Corrective Labour Camps / Colonies), and special settlements of the Gulag. 1. Abakan *(vi) 2. Abez-Inta *(1) 3. Aim (vii) 4. Akmolinsk * (vi) 5. Aktyubinsk *(vi) 6. Aleksandrovskoye (vi) 7. Aldan *(vi) 8. Allaykha (viii) 9. Alma-Ata (vii) 10. Andizhan *(v) 11. Arkhangelsk *(i) 12. Askold Isle (viii) 13. Astrakhan * (iti) 14. Asha (iv) 15. Ayan *(vii1) 16. Baku * (iii) 17. Balychigan *(viii) 18. Belomorsk * (1) 19. Belushye (i) 20. Berezovo (v) 21. Birobidzhan (ix) 22. Bodaybo *(vi) 23. Borovichi (ii) 24. Byreya *(ix) 25. Byugyuke (v) 26. Vanz (i) 27. Vaygach Isle (i) 28. Velsk (i) 29. Vereshchagino (v) 30. Verkhoyansk * (viii) 31. Verkhne-Imbatskoye (v) 32. Verkhne-Uralsk (iv) 33. Verkhny Ufaley *(iv) 34. Veslyana (v) 35. Vilyuisk *(vi) 36. Vitim *(vi) 37. Vologda *(ii) 38. Volkhov (ii) 39. Vorkuta *(i) 40. Vytegra *(1) 41. Gorali (v) 42. Gorky * (11) 43. Dzhezkazgan *(vii) 44. Dnepropetrovsk * (iii) 45, Elabuga (i) 46. Erofey Pavlovich *(vi) 47. Zhigansk (v) 48. Zayarsk (vi) 49. Franz Joseph Land *(i) 50. Zyryanka (viii) 51. Ivanovo (11) 52. Ivdel * (iv) 53. Izhevsk * (11) 54. Izvestkovy (viii) 55. Iman (viii) 56. Irgiz (vil) 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. . Irkutsk *(vi) . Ishimbay *(iv) . Kagan (vii) . Kazalinsk (vii) . Kazan * (ii) . Kamchatka * (viii) . Kandalaksha *(i) . Karabash (iv) . Karaganda * (vi) . Karakas (vii) . Karaul (v) . Kargopol *(i) . Kashin (ii) . Kemerovo *(vi) . Kzyl-Orda (vii) . Kizel * (ii) Kirov (Vyatka) *(ii) Knyazh-Pogost (i) Kozhva (i) Kokchetav *(vi) Kolbashevo (vi) Kolyma * (viii) 79. Commander Islands * (viii) 80 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91 92; 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 . Komsomolsk * (ix) Kondopoga *(1) Kopeisk *(iv) Kostroma * (11) Kotlas *(i) Krasnovodsk (iv) Krasnoturinsk (iv) Krasnogorsk *(vi) Kuznetsk *(vi) Kuibyshev * (ii) Kuloy (1) . Kungur *(iv) Kurgan-Tyube * (vii) . Kuril Islands * (viii) . Kurya (i) . Kustanay *(vi) . Kyzyl (vi) . Kyusyur (v) . Leningrad *(11) . Leninogorsk (vi) 0. Magdagachi (viii) 1. Magnitogorsk * (iv) 2. Mariinsk *(vi) 3. Mayor-Krest (viii) 4, Makhachkala (iii) 5. Medvezhiegorsk (i) 6. Mezen (i) 7. Miass *(iv) 8. Mirnoye (v) 9. Molotov (Perm) *(11) 0. Molotovsk (i) 1. Monchegorsk (i) 2. Morshansk (ii) 113. Moscow *(ii) 114. Nalchik (iii) 115. Narian-Mar *(i) 116. Nikolayevsk (vi) 117. Nikopol (ii1) 118. Nizhniye Kresty * (viii) 119. Nizhne-Tambovsk (viii) 120. Nizhny Tagil * (iv) 121. Novaya Zemlya *(i) 122. Nizhneye Shadrino (vi) 123. Novosibirsk *(vi) 124. Nordvik (v) 125. Norilsk *(v) 126. Ozhogino (viii) 127. Olyokminsk *(vi) 128. Omsk *(vi) 129. Orsk *(iv) 130. Ostashkov (11) 131. Pakhta-Aral (vii) 132. Penza (11) 133. Petrozavodsk *(i) 134. Petropavlovsk (vi) 135. Pechora *(i) 136. Plesetsk (i) 137. Podkamennaya Tunguska *(v) 138. Pokur (v) 139. Pokcha (i) 140. Prokopyevsk (vi) 141. Ramenskoye (i1) 142. Revda (iv) 143. Rezh (iv) 144. Rugoozero (1) 145. Savinobor (1) 146. Salekhard *(v) 147. Salyany (iii) 148. Sama (iv) 149. Saransk-Potma *(ii) 150. Sakhalin *(ix) 151. Sverdlovsk * (iv) 152. Svirstroy (11) 153. Segezha (i) 154. Seychman * (viii) 155. Semipalatinsk *(vi) 156. Solikamsk *(iv) 157. Solovets Islands *(i) 158. Sortavala (1) 159. Srednekolymsk * (viii) 160. Sretinsk (vi) 161. Stalingrad *(ii1) 162. Stalino (Donetsk) * (iii) 163. Stalinogorsk (ii) 164. Stalinsk (vi) 165. Stanchik (viii) 166. Starodub (ii) 167. Stolbovoye (viii) 168. Suojarvi *(1) 169. Sukhumi (iii) 170. Suchan *(ix) 171. Syzran *(ii) 172. Syktyvkar *(i) 173. Tavda *(iv) 174. Tayshet-Bratsk *(v1) 175. Tashkent * (vii) 176. Tbilisi (iii) 177. Tekyulyak (viii) 178. Tetyushi (ii) 179. Tiksi (v) 180. Tikhvin (11) 181. Tobolsk *(vi) 182. Totma *(i) 183. Tomsk *(vi) 184. Tula (11) 185. Tura (v) 186. Turinsk *(iv) 187. Turkestan * (vii) 188. Turukhansk *(v) 189. Tyumen *(vi) 190. Uglich (ii) 191. Ulyanovsk (ii) 192. Ulan-Ude * (vi) 193. Uman (111) 194. Uralsk (iv) 195. Ust-Vorkuta *(1) 196. Ust-Vym *(1) 197. Ust-Kamenogorsk *(vi) 198. Ust-Kamchatsky * (vil) 199. Ust-Kulom *(i) 200. Ust-Mil * (ii) 201. Ust-Port (v) 202. Ust-Srednikan (viii) 203. Ust-Usa * (viii) 204. Ust-Ukhta *(i) 205. Ust-Shugor (i) 206. Ufa *(iv) 207. Fergana (vil) 208. Frunze (vii) 209. Khabarovsk *(ix) 210. Kholmogory (i) 211. Khonu (viii) 212. Chardzhou (vii) 213. Chelkar (vii) 214. Chelyabinsk *(iv) 215. Chita *(vi) 216. Chkalov (Orenburg) (iv) 217. Chusovoy *(iv) 218. Shadrinsk *(iv) 219. Shcherbakov (ii) 220. Ekibastuz-Ugol (vi1) 221. Yakutsk *(v) 222. Yaroslavl (ii)

A slave singer of the Gulag prison camp sings: Russia is the land of freedom/ Beautiful land/ My land, the Soviet land. 'Where's she from? The bitch knows how to sing!' 'She's from a theatre in Leningrad, doing time under Article 58.* Ivanov got three of them, all "Honoured Artists." I had to give him five cons for her: three seamstresses, one accountant, and a cook- she worked in a restaurant out of prison. And now we have our very own singer.' •Article 58 of the Penal Code of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of 25th February 1927, dealt with anti-Soviet activities, counter-revolutionary activities, treason, espionage, undermining of state industry and transport (sabotage), terrorism, non-reporting of counter-revolutionary activities, etc. Prisoners convicted under Article 58 were known as 'political prisoners', their sentences were usually long (up to twenty-five years) and could be extended without trial.

A Gulag Prison (slave bitch) sings for the amusement of USSR NKVD and other governmental authorities.

Internal warfare between 'idealist, legitimate' thieves, and traitor 'bitch' thieves. After the Presidium of the Supreme Council decree of 6th July 194 7, which introduced a punishment for theft and robbery of twenty to twenty-five years imprisonment, the criminal world divided into two camps. In order to survive in the Gulag, some of the 'legitimate' thieves began to work. The prison administration introduced a system of incentives for them, which was called 'one for three'. It was possible for the prisoner to be discharged after only a third of his imprisonment term had elapsed. The 'idealist', 'legitimate' thieves, who refused to work (in accordance with their thieves' code of honour), called the working thieves 'bitches' and traitors to the code. Relentless warfare broke out between them. There were incidents in the history of the Gulag prison camps when fifty or more prisoners were killed in fights• between 'legitimate' thieves and 'bitches'. The Gulag authorities did not take action against such fights.

A gulag bloodbath among the prisoners.

Graffiti on the walls reads: 'Kill Bitches!'; 'Osipov is a cannibal and an old cock'; 'Death to contras'; 'Gunners'; 'Brigade No.5'; 'Death to coppers'; 'Ku m's a moron and an arsehole'; 'Don't turn your head around when you sit down to take a shit'; 'Death to Yids and prison guards'; 'Death to slant-eyed riffraff'; 'The supervisor of brigade No.12 is a moron and a thief'; 'Prosecutor lvlev is an arsehole'. Thieves carrying out a death sentence.* 'That'll teach them riffraff, Russian-haters, to give parcels with Estonian ham and honey to legitimate thieves.' * 'In one incident in 1951, a thieves' court sentenced a thief called Yurilkin to death. Camp authorities heard of the sentence, and transferred Yurilkin, first to another camp, then to a transit prison, then to a third camp in a completely different part of the country. Nevertheless, two thieves-in-law finally tracked him down there and murdered him - four years later. They were subsequently tried and executed for murder, but even such punishments were not necessarily a deterrent. In 1956, the Soviet prosecutor's office circulated a frustrated note complaining that "this criminal formation exists in all Corrective~Labour Camps, and often the decision of the group to murder one or another prisoner who is in a different camp is executed in that camp unquestioningly."' Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History, 2003.

A thief named Yurilkin is condemed to die by a thieves court. He was tracked down by thieves and hanged, four years after he was transported to another gulag by the NKVD to remove him from the danger.

The Gestapo, the bloody younger brother of the NKVD, never matured enough to adopt the notion of 'universal wrathful condemnation of the enemies of the Fatherland', and it lagged far behind in terms of 'labour efficiency'. By order of the NKVD, workers' meetings were held at factories, plants, kolkhozes, scientific institutes and educational institutions throughout the country. At these meetings people took the stage to publicly condemn 'spies, wreckers, and saboteurs in the pay of international intelligence', who had been exposed by the NKVD. They demanded they be exterminated 'like a pack of wild dogs'. Many of those who stood on the podium soon became part of the pack 'wild dogs' themselves, and were executed by firing squad.* •During Stalin's many purges some of his most loyal followers fell victim to his deadly paranoia. His ruthless cleansing of (mostly imagined) political opposition, was a constant feature of his regime. No one was immune, including those who had previously denounced others. 'We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.' Joseph Stalin, 'Our purposes', Pravda, 22 January 1912.

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