Michael Malice

He goes, that play was by Pushkin.

And they tortured him, they tortured him, tortured him.

And then his parents are walking down the street and they run into a secret police and they go, congratulations.

And they go, for what?

They go, your son wrote Eugene and Egan.

Like he admitted to it last night.

Like it's just like they could get you to say anything.

And what else was really, really sick, which they understood is they lower the death penalty for kids.

I think it's either 14 or 12.

I don't remember off the top of my head.

And what Stalin's head of the secret police did is when you were interrogating someone, you either had to have some of that family member's possessions on the desk or a copy of the decree that's saying that they can go after your family.

And the amount of people who would confess to anything when they saw their family was in danger and they knew this wasn't a bluff.

was astronomical and then it becomes a chain because if you confess and I have your confession how hard is it to get your neighbor what do you make of the for a time for most of the time the NKVD was about the head of NKVD Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria no Beria yeah I have a death warrant signed by him hanging in my kitchen that I acquired he was one of the most evil people who ever lived

The thing that Americans don't appreciate is how clever some of this sadism is.

So there was one actress, I think he took her back to his house and he tried to get her to sleep with him.

And he promised her that if she did, her father and either her husband or her grandfather, I don't remember which one it was, is going to be released from jail.

Well, they were already dead at that point.

He had them executed.

they're still finding the bodies of the women he murdered in the grounds of his dacha.

It's an embassy now.