Archive for August 29th, 2007

From the Komsomol Archive

By Sean at 29 August, 2007, 10:13 pm

I’m currently writing a chapter about expulsions in the Komsomol. The section I’m writing at the moment concerns denunciations. I thought I would share the following denunciation letter from 37 Komsomols from a cell in Chernishevsky school in Nizhny Novgorod in 1926.

To the Komsomol Bureau.
From the Nizhny Novhorod cell from the Chernishevsky School
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Supposed Killers and a Just Plain Crook

By Sean at 29 August, 2007, 5:57 pm

More information is coming out about the individuals arrested for Anna Politkovskaya’s murder. Moskovskii komsomolets gives a run down of the suspects. The most high profile suspect is Pavel Riaguzov, 37, a former FSB lieutenant-colonel at the Moscow City Directorate. Riaguzov has been under FSB suspicion for some time for his alleged involvement [...]

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