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USSR 1937
THE HEIGHT OF STALIN'S TERROR

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This is your new work gang...

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Another fine bunch.

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Each of 'em needs three assistants.

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Two to hold him up...

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and one to move his legs.

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Wake up!

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Here, the papers to be burnt
on the major's orders.

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This one’s going to burn it.

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You've got a cell
with the bolts working?

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All the cells have got new bolts.

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Take us to a stove.

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Come on, get a move on!

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What’s in there?

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All your prison secrets?

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Or last year’s
building warrants?

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None of your business.
For you, it’s to kindle the fire.

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Got it?

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Got it.

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Go inside.

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Put everything from the sack
into that stove and burn it!

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Look at me.

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Don’t think
you can hide even a scrap.

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If I find anything,
you'll be in solitary for a month.

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Got it?

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Matches.

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That'll be enough.

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Give the match box back afterwards.

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Lock him in.

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What's the old man in here for?

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ASB.

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Anti-social behaviour?

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And I thought...

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he was a watchman
in a wood yard...

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- ...and failed to catch some thieves.
- Just fancy that!

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Maybe the old man
had a whorehouse somewhere?

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"Dear Comrade Stalin,

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"I, Smirnov,

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"Ivan Sergeyich,

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"a Bolshevik Party member since
before the Revolution...

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"have been falsely accused of belonging
to the Trotsky-Bukharin faction...

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"They extort confessions from me.

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"They thrash me during interrogation."

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"Our dear leader,
Comrade Stalin,

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"we,
the Pestrukhin brothers,

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"collective farmers,
former red partisans,

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"are accused...
Soviet power...

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"the state... damage...

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"They beat confessions out of us...

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Devils.
"We're devoted to the Communist Party...

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"we spilt our blood for it..."

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We spilt our blood for it.

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"The factory manager...

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"falsely accused...

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"forced through torture...

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"no strength to bear...

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"I beg you to intervene...

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"Communist justice."

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Communist justice...

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Communist justice...

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"I request a cell visit by someone

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"from the prosecutor’s office.

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"I have some vital information.

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"I.S. Stepnyak."

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TWO PROSECUTORS
BASED ON A STORY BY GEORGY DEMIDOV

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You have to knock.

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What do you want?

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To the Major.

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Open up!

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He's going to the prison governor.

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There you go.

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Good morning.

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Good day.

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Please have a seat,
Comrade Prosecutor.

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What can I do for you?

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You have a prisoner here,
I.S. Stepnyak,

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We received his note requesting a visit
by someone from the prosecutor’s office.

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What on earth!

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We currently have 10,000 prisoners
on our lists.

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Do you know which block,

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which cell this... er?

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Stepnyak, Ivan Stepanovich.
Yes, Block 5, Cell 84.

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The Special Block?

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You got a message
from the Special Block?

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Yes. What of it?

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Oh, nothing.

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It doesn't matter.

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Excuse me.

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Yes.

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No.

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Yes.

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I don’t know.
Ask Petrovich.

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Still more people?

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Take them to Block 1.

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No, they haven't been questioned.

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Yes.

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Understood.

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Fine.

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Young man,

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only the prison governor
can allow access

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to a suspect who is detained

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by order of Soviet Security Services,
the district NKVD.

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I’m very sorry, but
you'll have to come back another day,

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or wait for the governor to return.

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Will he be long?

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There are often meetings nowadays

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about prison accommodation.

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And they are usually long meetings.

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Well, I’ll wait.

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May I wait in here?

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Of course.

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As it happens,
I have to go off to one of the blocks.

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They are all overcrowded,

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and I've got my hands full.

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So...

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forgive me for abandoning you.

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Duty calls.

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Make yourself at home.

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Thank you.

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Let him pass.

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Yes!

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Do you know what Radek replied,

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when asked what he was doing...
before the Revolution?

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No.

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"I was waiting in jail."

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And to the next question,
what did he do after the Revolution?

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No.

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"Jail was waiting for me."

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Well, what's up?

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Some student has turned up, with
the diploma of an inspecting prosecutor.

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So they’ve already appointed him?

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And?

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He wants to see the prisoner in Cell 84
in the Special Block.

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Stepnyak?

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But how does he know Stepnyak
is in that cell?

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I haven't got the faintest idea.

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Petrovich,

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the new prosecutor has turned up.

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Yes,
they've already appointed him.

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Just a kid...

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He’s asking to see a prisoner
in the Special Block.

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Fine.

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Fine...

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And what if he insists?

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Fine.

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You heard the one about Radek?

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Yes.
Of course, I'll report back.

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We’ll let him stew for a bit.

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If he’s still here at the end
of the day, bring him to me.

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Very good.

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"Jail was waiting for me."

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The duty assistant’s not here?

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No.

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Where is he?

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He went off to see about something.

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And who are you?

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I'm a prosecutor.

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Excuse me,
who am I talking to?

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Never mind, forget it.

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Well?

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The prison governor is waiting for you.

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Open the door.

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Yes!

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Here he is.

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Go in, please.

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Forgive me for making you wait.

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But I got held up by the chief,
what can you do?

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We’re living in troubled times,
as I'm sure you know.

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Please take a seat.

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It’s a pleasure to meet you.

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Of course we are used to older people
in Comrade Kornyev’s post,

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but times are changing
and our former ideas

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about young people's abilities
are outmoded.

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Now the whole Soviet apparatus
is rejuvenating, so to speak.

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So what about my request?

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You've been told what it's about?

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Yes, of course,
I’ve been informed...

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of your request.

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But you see,

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it would be better to postpone
your meeting with the prisoner

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until better times.

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For what reason?

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With the...

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current overcrowding
in this prison...

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--the Comrade prosecutor
must be aware of the problem...

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we are not always able to maintain
the required hygiene standards.

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So we often get outbreaks
of infectious diseases:

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diphtheria, typhoid
and even spotted typhus.

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Block 5 has been very unfortunate
in this respect.

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It's called the Special Block,

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as it holds prisoners charged with...

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counter-revolutionary crimes.

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There's a whole array...

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of infectious diseases there,

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and I strictly advise against anyone
even showing their face there,

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unless it's in the nature of their work.

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That’s why I’m here,
to carry out my work.

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Yes, yes, of course.

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I only meant that

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while a warder
can't avoid his normal duties,

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a prosecutor has the right

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to postpone his meeting with a prisoner
until a more suitable time.

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It will hardly affect the outcome.

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And it's a very bad idea to visit now,
as the doctors think that...

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the prisoner you want to see,

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has some...

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infectious disease.

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In that case, the prisoner should
be transferred to the prison hospital.

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A prisoner only needs such a transfer

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if he's in a shared cell.

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But Stepnyak,

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as a dangerous state criminal,
is being held in isolation.

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In such cases,

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the patient is treated in his cell,

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unless there is need
for an urgent surgical intervention,

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or constant medical observation.

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And if the disease is infectious,

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the cell is off-limits.

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I even discussed with the doctor

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moving the prisoner to the room
where defendants meet their lawyers.

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But...

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the doctor was dead set against it.

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It would infringe...

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the hygiene rules,

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and might endanger...

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the sick man.

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What exactly is wrong
with prisoner Stepnyak?

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The doctors haven’t made
a definite diagnosis yet,

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but something intestinal...

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It might even be typhoid.

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Well, that’s not very risky.

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I’m not going to shake hands,
or eat out of the same bowl.

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So you insist on meeting
prisoner Stepnyak now?

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Yes, I insist.

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Number 5! Report to my office,
immediately.

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You've just been appointed?

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Three months ago.

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Do you know where
your predecessor is now?

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Yes!

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Take Comrade...

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Kornyev.

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Kornyev!
Take prosecutor Kornyev

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to prisoner Stepnyak
in number 84.

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Accompany prosecutor Kornyev
to prisoner Stepnyak

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in number 84.

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We must comply with
the lawful requests

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of the inspector prosecutor.

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I’m happy

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that our new prosecutor,
despite his tender years,

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turns out to be so persistent.

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But all the same, I regret
that you are so incautious.

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Washing your hands with soap won’t
protect you from certain illnesses.

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What do you mean?

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All I mean is,

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don’t forget
about the risk of infection.

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I’ll try not to.

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I’m glad to hear it.

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He’s with me!

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He’s with me!

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Open number 84!

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By order of the governor!

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The prosecutor has come
to see Stepnyak.

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Surname?

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Kornyev.

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Forenames?

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Alexander Mikhailovich.

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Open the door.

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Citizen Stepnyak,

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the prosecutor has come
for a private talk with you.

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Show me your professional accreditation,
Citizen...

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Prosecutor.

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You don’t trust
the representative of the authorities?

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I don’t trust you!

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The prisoner is within his rights
to check who I really am.

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Order them to unlock my bunk.

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Then there’ll be somewhere to sit.

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Please unlock the bunk.

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And now...

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get them to leave us alone.

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I won’t speak in front of outsiders.

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I’m not an outsider!

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It's my duty
to keep you under observation.

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He can observe us through
the ‘Judas’ hole.

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I have no intention
of attacking the prosecutor.

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But I absolutely insist
that our discussion is private.

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That is my right.

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Leave us please,
he's within his rights.

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Leave us.

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It's difficult for me to stand.

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I’m here because of this note.

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Did you write it?

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I did.

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I had to smash my knuckle
against a bit of metal.

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There's nothing sharp in this cell.

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Before using your own blood,
did you ask for a pencil and paper?

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I did.

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But of course they didn’t provide it.

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How did you get your message
out of the prison?

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No need to answer if it's a secret.

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What secret?

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I simply gave it to the warder,

302 00:45:58:05 00:46:02:05
on a wing and a prayer,
as they say,

303 00:46:04:07 00:46:05:22
and as you see,

304 00:46:06:21 00:46:08:23
it escaped beyond these walls.

305 00:46:24:01 00:46:26:22
Are you really
from the prosecutor’s office?

306 00:46:29:10 00:46:31:21
You've seen my accreditation.

307 00:46:33:07 00:46:38:05
It's child's play for the local branch
of the NKVD

308 00:46:38:09 00:46:41:12
to forge such stuff.

309 00:46:42:01 00:46:45:18
So maybe this document
will dispel your doubts about me?

310 00:47:00:09 00:47:03:18
So you studied in the law faculty.

311 00:47:05:16 00:47:07:06
You graduated?

312 00:47:08:03 00:47:10:00
Yes, three months ago.

313 00:47:10:19 00:47:13:13
And how did you end up
in the prosecutor's office?

314 00:47:13:17 00:47:15:10
Through the university quota.

315 00:47:15:22 00:47:21:11
So, the local NKVD
have infiltrated

316 00:47:21:15 00:47:23:19
the prosecutor’s office,

317 00:47:24:12 00:47:26:22
if lads like you...

318 00:47:28:22 00:47:31:17
who are still wet behind the ears,

319 00:47:31:21 00:47:33:10
are being appointed.

320 00:48:18:07 00:48:19:23
Ivan Stepanovich.

321 00:48:29:04 00:48:33:12
Do you remember the speech you made
at our law school jubilee?

322 00:48:40:14 00:48:41:15
Yes,

323 00:48:43:16 00:48:45:22
I was there at your school.

324 00:48:49:01 00:48:50:11
What of it?

325 00:48:51:14 00:48:56:11
You said that the Soviet rule of law
is part of the great Bolshevik Truth,

326 00:48:57:04 00:49:01:13
and that when we became lawyers,
we should fight for this Truth.

327 00:49:02:21 00:49:05:06
I paid great attention to your words,

328 00:49:05:15 00:49:08:15
and took them
as more than just fine rhetoric.

329 00:49:21:12 00:49:23:11
You understood correctly.

330 00:49:24:04 00:49:26:02
It was all just as I said.

331 00:49:28:04 00:49:30:03
We fought against the Whites...

332 00:49:31:06 00:49:33:22
for the worker-peasant Truth.

333 00:49:34:02 00:49:36:15
We were banged up

334 00:49:36:19 00:49:40:09
in vaults like this.

335 00:49:41:23 00:49:43:15
We were sentenced

336 00:49:43:19 00:49:46:08
to be shot,

337 00:49:46:12 00:49:47:21
or hanged.

338 00:49:53:02 00:49:55:20
And doesn't defending Soviet law

339 00:49:56:00 00:49:58:05
still entail
risks and difficulties now?

340 00:50:13:08 00:50:16:07
It seems you’re not stupid, lad.

341 00:50:18:05 00:50:22:14
And since you're not stupid
and you still came here,

342 00:50:23:09 00:50:25:12
you are clearly honourable,

343 00:50:26:22 00:50:28:04
and no coward.

344 00:50:32:07 00:50:33:20
You’re not married yet?

345 00:50:37:07 00:50:38:07
No.

346 00:50:38:11 00:50:41:20
Are your father and mother
still alive?

347 00:50:42:00 00:50:43:14
No, they're dead.

348 00:50:48:04 00:50:52:02
Then listen to what I have to say.

349 00:50:52:19 00:50:54:20
But first, look at what...

350 00:50:58:15 00:51:02:19
the NKVD did to me.

351 00:51:04:20 00:51:07:10
Just don’t show any reaction!

352 00:51:10:09 00:51:14:12
We don’t want the man
at the 'Judas' hole to know about it.

353 00:52:20:12 00:52:22:23
That’s how things are, laddy.

354 00:52:23:12 00:52:25:14
You saw what I’m coughing up.

355 00:52:25:23 00:52:27:23
My urine is also red.

356 00:52:28:18 00:52:31:16
Once, during the Revolution,

357 00:52:32:08 00:52:34:20
I got thrashed by some Kulaks.

358 00:52:37:00 00:52:41:01
But I was young and curly-headed then.

359 00:52:41:05 00:52:42:20
I could cope.

360 00:52:43:22 00:52:45:05
But now,

361 00:52:46:19 00:52:48:07
another dose...

362 00:52:50:08 00:52:51:23
will finish me off.

363 00:52:54:00 00:52:56:23
It's already hopeless.

364 00:53:01:06 00:53:03:05
And what are they holding you for?

365 00:53:03:09 00:53:06:10
Not 'what', but 'why?'.

366 00:53:08:07 00:53:11:18
I have a stubborn character.

367 00:53:13:02 00:53:17:08
I won't sign a death warrant

368 00:53:18:08 00:53:22:04
for myself,
or other innocent people.

369 00:53:24:07 00:53:29:23
But that's
what they want from me...

370 00:53:35:17 00:53:40:02
These undercover fascists
from the NKVD.

371 00:53:41:18 00:53:45:06
The investigation block

372 00:53:45:10 00:53:51:04
is now
a vast torture chamber,

373 00:53:52:23 00:53:57:09
where thousands of innocent people

374 00:53:57:13 00:53:59:21
undergo...

375 00:54:01:21 00:54:03:12
such beatings.

376 00:54:04:02 00:54:07:09
They are starved
and deprived of sleep,

377 00:54:08:02 00:54:11:23
until they make...

378 00:54:14:06 00:54:16:19
false confessions

379 00:54:18:12 00:54:19:20
against themselves

380 00:54:20:05 00:54:21:13
and others.

381 00:54:22:17 00:54:27:13
Honest people are accused of crimes
they wouldn’t dream of committing.

382 00:54:27:23 00:54:33:09
The same story in the courts,
which are also controlled by the NKVD.

383 00:54:35:00 00:54:37:20
They deal especially harshly

384 00:54:38:16 00:54:41:06
with old Party members.

385 00:54:42:11 00:54:48:13
Here they have exterminated
almost the entire Party leadership.

386 00:54:49:18 00:54:51:18
It seems that,

387 00:54:52:18 00:54:58:04
out of all the members
of the district committee,

388 00:55:00:00 00:55:02:03
I'm the last survivor...

389 00:55:03:20 00:55:10:09
because I was more obstinate
than the old Party members,

390 00:55:10:13 00:55:14:03
and refused to sign anything.

391 00:55:16:08 00:55:19:06
They wanted me to sign a confession

392 00:55:19:23 00:55:23:02
that when I was with the partisans
fighting in Ukraine,

393 00:55:23:06 00:55:25:16
I was a secret agent of Petliura.

394 00:55:31:03 00:55:34:03
The local fascists

395 00:55:34:07 00:55:38:15
make their victim confess
to imaginary crimes

396 00:55:39:18 00:55:42:20
before they can shoot them.

397 00:55:44:15 00:55:48:06
They need innocent people
to incriminate themselves,

398 00:55:49:21 00:55:54:11
in order to justify their actions

399 00:55:54:15 00:55:58:11
to the higher authorities.

400 00:56:00:17 00:56:04:04
"See how vigilant we are,

401 00:56:04:08 00:56:09:02
"how keenly we root out subversion
in our own house."

402 00:56:12:00 00:56:14:10
They fear being unmasked,

403 00:56:15:11 00:56:19:01
they try to do everything...

404 00:56:20:01 00:56:21:10
by the law.

405 00:56:23:13 00:56:28:18
Of course, the executioners
from the district authority

406 00:56:29:10 00:56:35:18
can easily beat
an obstinate detainee to death,

407 00:56:37:20 00:56:41:13
but it is an undesirable measure.

408 00:56:42:22 00:56:45:13
So they preserve...

409 00:56:47:03 00:56:51:01
people like me.

410 00:56:53:06 00:56:56:20
They hope that a man

411 00:56:58:23 00:57:01:18
with smashed up internal organs

412 00:57:02:20 00:57:05:02
won’t last long.

413 00:57:07:11 00:57:11:01
But my official cause of death

414 00:57:11:05 00:57:13:08
will be ‘heart failure’,

415 00:57:14:09 00:57:18:12
in this very prison.

416 00:57:24:14 00:57:27:09
These enemies of the people...

417 00:57:28:05 00:57:30:22
saboteurs from the NKVD,

418 00:57:32:19 00:57:34:23
don’t break tools,

419 00:57:35:03 00:57:38:04
or burn down factories.

420 00:57:39:01 00:57:43:08
Loyal old Party leaders

421 00:57:44:03 00:57:46:00
are replaced by...

422 00:57:47:22 00:57:50:04
young careerists

423 00:57:50:08 00:57:51:22
and loud mouths.

424 00:57:52:11 00:57:56:01
And honest, knowledgeable experts

425 00:57:56:17 00:58:01:03
are substituted by ignorant charlatans.

426 00:58:03:05 00:58:05:17
I’m not asking for myself,

427 00:58:05:21 00:58:07:23
I’ve had it anyway.

428 00:58:09:08 00:58:12:01
It grieves me to see

429 00:58:12:19 00:58:15:06
our revolutionary project endangered.

430 00:58:21:07 00:58:23:05
If you are a brave man,

431 00:58:23:21 00:58:26:00
a real Bolshevik,

432 00:58:27:01 00:58:30:17
an honest Soviet lawyer,

433 00:58:32:00 00:58:35:20
then set off for Moscow today.

434 00:58:37:22 00:58:40:14
Get a meeting with Stalin.

435 00:58:42:03 00:58:43:20
If you can’t get to him,

436 00:58:44:22 00:58:48:06
approach a member
of the Politburo...

437 00:58:49:21 00:58:51:14
Yezhov, Voroshilov,

438 00:58:52:20 00:58:54:11
Molotov.

439 00:58:56:03 00:58:59:21
Report to them that here,

440 00:59:02:10 00:59:05:16
the cream of the Party
is being exterminated,

441 00:59:06:15 00:59:12:07
hundreds of thousands
of honest Soviet people.

442 00:59:16:15 00:59:18:19
And don’t delay.

443 00:59:19:23 00:59:23:23
You insisted on a meeting with me...

444 00:59:25:12 00:59:29:01
so they won't leave you in peace.

445 00:59:29:18 00:59:32:08
Before you know it...

446 00:59:33:10 00:59:34:21
you yourself

447 00:59:36:01 00:59:39:07
will end up in a hole like this one.

448 01:00:26:06 01:00:27:14
Open up!

449 01:02:09:07 01:02:10:23
He's left the block.

450 01:02:13:02 01:02:14:20
He'll reach you shortly.

451 01:02:16:08 01:02:19:20
Wait, yes, yes.

452 01:02:21:21 01:02:24:09
In general, this work
needs to be done sooner...

453 01:02:24:13 01:02:25:21
rather than later.

454 01:02:32:09 01:02:34:18
They’re allowing idiots to graduate.

455 01:03:14:11 01:03:16:11
After the campaign

456 01:03:16:15 01:03:19:18
in 1916 at Kovel,

457 01:03:20:05 01:03:21:09
my good sir!

458 01:03:24:07 01:03:26:08
I lost me leg
and me arm.

459 01:03:27:03 01:03:33:03
At that time there weren’t no benefits
for war invalids.

460 01:03:33:07 01:03:35:04
Them benefits only came later...

461 01:03:36:11 01:03:39:17
So I sees that I’ll have to work

462 01:03:39:21 01:03:42:00
with just me left hand.

463 01:03:43:02 01:03:45:05
I thought I'd go home to me father.

464 01:03:45:09 01:03:47:11
He says,
"I’ve got nothing to feed you on",

465 01:03:47:15 01:03:49:06
can you imagine it?

466 01:03:49:10 01:03:52:00
"I can hardly get a crust of bread
for meself."

467 01:03:52:04 01:03:53:11
So I set off for Petersburg,

468 01:03:53:23 01:03:56:07
to ask Lenin

469 01:03:56:11 01:03:59:13
if there's any alms
for the proletarian poor,

470 01:03:59:17 01:04:03:16
seeing as how, so to speak,
I shed me blood!

471 01:04:04:03 01:04:05:15
Laid down me life!

472 01:04:05:19 01:04:08:03
And did you get
alms from Lenin?

473 01:04:08:13 01:04:10:16
Hang on.
Don’t rush me.

474 01:04:10:20 01:04:12:13
See this learned young man here,

475 01:04:12:17 01:04:14:15
he needs everything
in the right order.

476 01:04:14:19 01:04:18:07
So, you know,
one way and another,

477 01:04:18:11 01:04:21:06
in carts and so on,
my good sir,

478 01:04:21:10 01:04:24:07
I somehow got to Petersburg.

479 01:04:24:22 01:04:27:17
Well, can you picture it?

480 01:04:27:21 01:04:31:09
This lice-ridden soldier boy

481 01:04:31:13 01:04:33:09
in the capital city,

482 01:04:33:13 01:04:36:14
which is like no other in the world!

483 01:04:37:03 01:04:40:16
There's Nevsky Prospect.

484 01:04:41:05 01:04:43:12
Goddamit,
there's Gorokhovaya Street...

485 01:04:44:12 01:04:45:21
and Liteyny Prospect.

486 01:04:46:01 01:04:48:09
Some spire sticks up in the air,

487 01:04:48:13 01:04:50:14
bridges open up,
goddamit,

488 01:04:50:18 01:04:52:11
without anything holding 'em up!

489 01:04:52:15 01:04:55:06
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

490 01:04:55:10 01:04:56:21
Don’t drag it out, Pegleg!

491 01:04:57:01 01:04:58:12
Don't rush,

492 01:04:58:16 01:05:00:15
you might have seen it all.

493 01:05:00:19 01:05:03:22
But he’s a young man,
hasn't been there.

494 01:05:04:02 01:05:06:12
Probably never had a woman!

495 01:05:07:12 01:05:08:09
Hey?

496 01:05:11:04 01:05:13:11
I wanted to rent an apartment,

497 01:05:13:15 01:05:16:08
but it would've have cost a fortune!

498 01:05:17:02 01:05:19:11
But me capital assets

499 01:05:19:15 01:05:22:00
came to a few fivers.

500 01:05:22:12 01:05:26:05
I found shelter in the Revel inn

501 01:05:26:09 01:05:27:17
for a rouble a night.

502 01:05:27:21 01:05:29:21
Dinner was cabbage soup.

503 01:05:30:01 01:05:32:04
I sees that I won't survive for long.

504 01:05:32:08 01:05:34:03
I asked where to turn to.

505 01:05:34:07 01:05:36:09
People said
"Go to the Smolny...

506 01:05:36:18 01:05:38:04
"to Lenin himself,

507 01:05:38:14 01:05:40:17
"to the heart of Soviet power."

508 01:05:41:15 01:05:44:11
"That’s where justice lives."

509 01:05:45:02 01:05:46:13
What idiot

510 01:05:46:17 01:05:48:08
gave you that advice?

511 01:05:48:12 01:05:51:21
Shut up, Turnip head.
Better keep listening.

512 01:05:52:01 01:05:55:02
I got up ever so early,

513 01:05:55:06 01:05:58:10
scraped off me beard
with me left hand,

514 01:05:58:14 01:06:01:11
to save on a barber,

515 01:06:02:02 01:06:04:13
put on me shabby uniform

516 01:06:04:17 01:06:06:14
and me wooden leg

517 01:06:06:18 01:06:08:11
and tap-tap-tap...

518 01:06:08:15 01:06:10:03
can you picture it?

519 01:06:10:07 01:06:12:19
I set off to see Lenin

520 01:06:12:23 01:06:14:06
in the Smolny.

521 01:06:14:21 01:06:19:11
There's mirrors, vases,
white ceilings,

522 01:06:19:15 01:06:22:02
columns,
precious marble things!

523 01:06:22:06 01:06:24:03
People scurrying to and fro.

524 01:06:24:07 01:06:25:21
Could hardly get past them.

525 01:06:26:01 01:06:29:04
They say "Go, if you must."

526 01:06:29:08 01:06:31:17
So I rushed about here and there.

527 01:06:32:08 01:06:34:12
Everybody had seen Lenin,

528 01:06:34:16 01:06:37:08
but nobody knew where he was.

529 01:06:38:00 01:06:41:19
I tapped along on me wooden leg
to some reception room,

530 01:06:41:23 01:06:44:18
tucked meself in a corner
so I wouldn't knock over

531 01:06:44:22 01:06:48:12
some sort of America or India
gilded porcelain vase,

532 01:06:48:16 01:06:50:02
and there I waits.

533 01:06:50:17 01:06:52:16
I waits four hours,

534 01:06:52:20 01:06:56:07
until finally an adjutant

535 01:06:56:11 01:06:58:10
or some other clerk,
comes in,

536 01:06:59:01 01:07:00:08
and he says:

537 01:07:01:00 01:07:03:17
"Lenin will come in now".

538 01:07:03:21 01:07:08:13
And the room’s already crammed
like a tin of sardines.

539 01:07:08:17 01:07:13:21
All with red ribbons
and smoking shag baccy.

540 01:07:14:01 01:07:17:18
Suddenly people go
"Shh, shh, shh",

541 01:07:19:07 01:07:21:11
and then a terrible silence falls.

542 01:07:22:06 01:07:23:02
Lenin comes in.

543 01:07:26:22 01:07:28:01
Well...

544 01:07:28:20 01:07:30:09
Can you imagine?

545 01:07:30:13 01:07:32:02
A statesman.

546 01:07:32:18 01:07:35:02
On his face an expression,
so to say...

547 01:07:35:06 01:07:36:23
well, fitting with his rank,

548 01:07:37:12 01:07:39:23
with his high level.

549 01:07:40:11 01:07:42:23
Everyone in that hall expects,
trembles,

550 01:07:43:03 01:07:47:19
waits for their fate to be decided,
in some measure.

551 01:07:48:13 01:07:50:05
Lenin goes up to one...

552 01:07:50:17 01:07:51:13
then another.

553 01:07:51:17 01:07:55:14
"What are you here for?
And you? What is your business?"

554 01:07:56:06 01:07:58:02
He comes up to me,
I dares to say:

555 01:07:58:06 01:08:02:12
"It’s like this, Your Excellency,
leader of the proletarian revolution:

556 01:08:02:16 01:08:06:12
"I spilt me blood,
lost an arm and a leg, cannot work,

557 01:08:06:16 01:08:09:11
"I make so bold
as to request royal alms."

558 01:08:10:07 01:08:12:21
Lenin gives me a shrewd look...

559 01:08:13:13 01:08:15:02
sees that I’ve got a wooden leg

560 01:08:15:06 01:08:17:09
and me right sleeve is empty.

561 01:08:18:07 01:08:19:09
"Very well", he says.

562 01:08:19:13 01:08:21:06
"Come back in a few days."

563 01:08:21:19 01:08:24:09
"We are always happy to see
any proletarian,

564 01:08:24:13 01:08:26:21
"even one minus an arm
and minus a leg."

565 01:08:27:01 01:08:29:11
He never!

566 01:08:29:15 01:08:30:23
That's just what he said!

567 01:08:31:03 01:08:32:00
Yes...

568 01:08:32:04 01:08:34:08
"Come back, dear fellow."

569 01:08:35:07 01:08:37:19
I think "that's all".

570 01:08:39:00 01:08:40:08
"The job's done."

571 01:08:43:15 01:08:45:09
And what happened next?

572 01:08:45:23 01:08:46:22
What d'you mean?

573 01:08:47:02 01:08:48:23
After that, what happened?

574 01:08:50:03 01:08:51:01
Nothing.

575 01:08:51:05 01:08:53:13
What d'you mean, "nothing"?

576 01:08:53:17 01:08:56:00
You seem to have lived long enough

577 01:08:56:04 01:08:57:15
to lose all yer teeth,

578 01:08:59:07 01:09:01:02
but you don’t understand a thing.

579 01:09:01:11 01:09:02:20
But what about Lenin?

580 01:09:04:10 01:09:06:18
That was the last
I saw of Lenin!

581 01:09:06:22 01:09:08:20
I comes one day,
then another.

582 01:09:09:07 01:09:10:12
It was a bitter pill...

583 01:09:10:16 01:09:12:22
"Come tomorrow,
tomorrow."

584 01:09:13:02 01:09:14:05
I got fed up.

585 01:09:14:09 01:09:19:11
I kicked up such a fuss that a constable
appeared out of the haze of baccy smoke,

586 01:09:19:15 01:09:23:12
and stood in front of me.

587 01:09:23:21 01:09:27:02
He must’ve been 7 foot tall,

588 01:09:27:15 01:09:30:01
with enormous fists,

589 01:09:31:03 01:09:32:21
designed for bashing coachmen,

590 01:09:33:01 01:09:34:18
he would make such a dentist...

591 01:09:34:22 01:09:37:00
So, they caught hold of me,
a poor sinner,

592 01:09:37:04 01:09:39:11
and took me
to an alms house.

593 01:09:40:05 01:09:44:05
I lived at the state's expense,
I got me allowance.

594 01:09:44:20 01:09:46:15
Then Lenin died.

595 01:09:47:09 01:09:49:13
Now I’m off to see Stalin.

596 01:09:49:17 01:09:52:01
They say
he’s got a heart of gold.

597 01:09:55:18 01:09:57:08
It ain't for meself

598 01:09:58:03 01:10:00:21
that I shed me blood,
sacrificed me life.

599 01:10:02:19 01:10:04:05
So I want to ask you,

600 01:10:05:01 01:10:06:16
a learned man,

601 01:10:07:23 01:10:09:23
d'you think
he'll give me alms?

602 01:14:38:19 01:14:41:12
Are you looking for someone,
young man?

603 01:14:42:01 01:14:42:21
Yes.

604 01:14:43:12 01:14:44:12
Who?

605 01:14:46:03 01:14:49:01
The Prosecutor General.
I have business with him.

606 01:14:50:12 01:14:54:14
If you have business with him,
you should know where to find him.

607 01:15:17:07 01:15:18:07
Yes?

608 01:15:21:19 01:15:22:18
Sorry?

609 01:15:22:22 01:15:25:12
The way out.
Where’s the way out?

610 01:15:27:16 01:15:30:04
Down the stairs and turn left.

611 01:15:33:21 01:15:35:03
Are you feeling alright?

612 01:15:35:07 01:15:36:08
Yes.

613 01:16:04:14 01:16:07:09
Fancy seeing you here, old chap!

614 01:16:07:22 01:16:09:01
Well, congrats!

615 01:16:09:17 01:16:10:16
Congrats!

616 01:16:11:11 01:16:16:02
I always had faith in you.
I always knew that you’d go far!

617 01:16:16:06 01:16:18:22
What a great chap you are!
And how grown up you are.

618 01:16:19:02 01:16:21:08
In all respects, I gather?

619 01:16:22:04 01:16:23:15
Do we really know each other?

620 01:16:23:19 01:16:26:13
This is Comrade Mrazovich.

621 01:16:26:17 01:16:30:14
This is a former classmate of mine,
a high flyer, you could say...

622 01:16:31:09 01:16:32:13
Mrazovich.

623 01:16:32:17 01:16:34:06
- Kornyev.
- Kornyev!

624 01:16:34:10 01:16:37:17
That’s what I said, Kornyev.
This is Kornyev. He’s a real artist.

625 01:16:37:21 01:16:40:04
- Call in and see me.
- Yes, yes.

626 01:16:41:08 01:16:44:11
A big fish.
If you need something, he's the one.

627 01:16:45:03 01:16:47:17
When were you transferred?
What department are you in?

628 01:16:48:23 01:16:49:15
I've co--

629 01:16:49:19 01:16:51:15
Of course, I didn’t think
you'd come to see me.

630 01:16:51:19 01:16:54:15
What’s the case,
if it’s no secret?

631 01:16:55:18 01:16:56:14
Sorry,

632 01:16:56:18 01:16:58:10
have we really met before?

633 01:16:58:14 01:17:00:20
Kornyev, stop playing the fool.

634 01:17:02:06 01:17:04:07
Call in on me afterwards.

635 01:17:04:11 01:17:07:09
Room 312.
No need to knock.

636 01:17:07:21 01:17:08:23
Alright.

637 01:17:41:04 01:17:42:18
How can I help?

638 01:17:43:09 01:17:46:07
Good day.
I've come to see the Prosecutor General.

639 01:18:20:17 01:18:22:09
Have you received an appointment?

640 01:18:22:13 01:18:23:12
No.

641 01:18:27:02 01:18:29:14
Comrade Kornyev,

642 01:18:30:00 01:18:32:22
the Prosecutor General
only meets people

643 01:18:33:13 01:18:36:02
at the invitation
of the Chief Prosecutor's office

644 01:18:36:06 01:18:37:21
so I'm afraid
I can't help you.

645 01:18:40:22 01:18:45:12
I have come a very long way
on extremely important state business.

646 01:18:48:20 01:18:51:12
Everyone's here on important business.

647 01:18:54:17 01:18:56:23
Have you got a travel warrant?

648 01:19:00:01 01:19:01:01
No.

649 01:19:01:12 01:19:02:14
But...

650 01:19:03:18 01:19:05:06
it's a very important matter.

651 01:19:08:00 01:19:10:00
If that’s the case, Comrade,

652 01:19:10:04 01:19:13:03
then why didn’t your office bother

653 01:19:13:07 01:19:17:06
to get you an appointment
well in advance?

654 01:19:17:10 01:19:21:00
Why doesn’t Comrade Kornyev
at least possess a travel warrant,

655 01:19:21:04 01:19:25:17
confirming that he has some business
with the Chief Prosecutor's office?

656 01:19:25:21 01:19:28:22
I can't even include your name
on the ‘doubtfuls’ list,

657 01:19:29:02 01:19:33:15
on which the Prosecutor General
himself will make a decision.

658 01:19:39:18 01:19:41:11
Here.
I’m a party member.

659 01:19:42:00 01:19:45:05
I came to inform the Prosecutor General

660 01:19:45:14 01:19:48:12
of a vital and urgent matter,

661 01:19:48:16 01:19:51:00
and I need to see him privately,
face to face.

662 01:19:51:04 01:19:53:17
It can't be done on paper
as you propose.

663 01:19:54:16 01:19:57:03
It's in your interests
to take this seriously.

664 01:20:16:00 01:20:16:16
Thank you.

665 01:20:16:20 01:20:17:19
Goodbye.

666 01:20:39:16 01:20:40:18
Please.

667 01:20:48:12 01:20:49:23
- Go through.
- Thank you.

668 01:21:06:19 01:21:10:08
Fine. I'll report your presence
to the Prosecutor General

669 01:21:10:12 01:21:12:13
and will inform you
of his decision.

670 01:21:13:13 01:21:15:17
Wait in the reception room.
Please.

671 01:21:16:06 01:21:17:06
Thank you.

672 01:21:47:23 01:21:48:19
Thank you.

673 01:21:48:23 01:21:49:23
Goodbye.

674 01:22:14:10 01:22:16:00
Comrade Zavtrakin!

675 01:22:23:21 01:22:24:21
Please.

676 01:23:48:10 01:23:49:18
Please go in.

677 01:24:58:09 01:24:59:11
Thank you, goodbye.

678 01:24:59:15 01:25:00:14
Goodbye.

679 01:25:12:08 01:25:13:22
Comrade Smirnov!

680 01:25:48:04 01:25:49:13
You are lucky.

681 01:25:49:17 01:25:52:14
The Comrade Prosecutor General
has agreed to see you

682 01:25:52:18 01:25:54:04
against all the odds.

683 01:26:00:18 01:26:03:01
But you would do well
to remember

684 01:26:03:14 01:26:07:03
that you have come to see one of
the busiest people in the government.

685 01:26:07:07 01:26:09:12
Therefore be brief,

686 01:26:09:16 01:26:13:15
don’t waste
the Comrade's precious time.

687 01:26:14:01 01:26:16:07
Two or three minutes at the most.

688 01:26:59:21 01:27:01:00
I’m listening.

689 01:27:02:08 01:27:06:08
My name is Kornyev.
I am the inspecting prosecutor...

690 01:27:06:12 01:27:08:19
of the local prisons in Bryansk,

691 01:27:09:16 01:27:11:04
where I have discovered

692 01:27:12:04 01:27:16:01
an infringement of socialist law

693 01:27:16:05 01:27:18:02
by the local NKVD,

694 01:27:18:06 01:27:21:21
regarding their conduct of cases
of counter-revolutionary crimes.

695 01:27:22:01 01:27:26:05
The rules have been broken
regarding the detention of suspects.

696 01:27:30:16 01:27:31:21
I see. Continue.

697 01:27:35:15 01:27:39:05
I know for a fact
that a detainee was repeatedly beaten

698 01:27:39:09 01:27:41:08
while under interrogation

699 01:27:41:12 01:27:45:04
by the local branch of the NKVD.

700 01:27:46:15 01:27:48:15
I believe that...

701 01:27:48:19 01:27:50:08
such beatings,

702 01:27:51:01 01:27:53:22
and other illegal methods
of investigation...

703 01:27:54:20 01:27:57:15
are used systematically.

704 01:27:59:06 01:28:01:19
The fact that political prisoners

705 01:28:01:23 01:28:05:09
are deprived of the possibility
of addressing complaints

706 01:28:05:13 01:28:09:11
to the appropriate authorities,
provides further evidence.

707 01:28:30:06 01:28:34:02
This may be the only such statement
from the political wing of the prison

708 01:28:34:06 01:28:38:09
that ever reached
the office of the district prosecutor.

709 01:28:58:15 01:29:01:10
The material on which it is written,
and the 'ink'

710 01:29:01:14 01:29:03:18
the prisoner used,
all this speaks volumes.

711 01:29:05:04 01:29:08:01
BRYANSK
PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE

712 01:29:20:10 01:29:25:03
Why inform me of these infringements
instead of your district prosecutor?

713 01:29:30:19 01:29:34:12
Because I have no confidence
that the local prosecutor’s office

714 01:29:34:16 01:29:37:00
will intervene
with the local NKVD.

715 01:29:39:11 01:29:41:13
Moreover, I fear that...

716 01:29:41:17 01:29:45:22
the local prosecutor’s office would
not want, and indeed would not be able,

717 01:29:46:02 01:29:49:03
to protect any of its own staff
who did intervene.

718 01:29:49:22 01:29:51:20
When the NKVD
makes a wrongful arrest

719 01:29:52:00 01:29:54:18
the issuing of sanctions
by the prosecutor’s office

720 01:29:54:22 01:29:56:21
has long been an empty formality.

721 01:29:58:02 01:30:03:13
So turning to my superior
would not only be pointless,

722 01:30:03:17 01:30:05:01
but it would be...

723 01:30:05:05 01:30:06:16
almost suicidal.

724 01:30:08:09 01:30:10:01
And I decided to approach you,

725 01:30:10:05 01:30:12:04
not as a professional,

726 01:30:12:08 01:30:15:17
but as an honest Soviet citizen,
and a Party member.

727 01:30:21:09 01:30:23:14
What is the aim,

728 01:30:23:18 01:30:26:03
in your opinion,

729 01:30:26:07 01:30:28:19
of these violations

730 01:30:28:23 01:30:31:20
which you suspect are going on
in your district?

731 01:30:32:08 01:30:33:10
Comrade Vyshinsky,

732 01:30:36:01 01:30:38:20
I'm sure that a group
of counter-revolutionaries,

733 01:30:39:00 01:30:40:20
posing as Stalinist Chekists,

734 01:30:41:00 01:30:43:15
are active
in our district branch of the NKVD.

735 01:30:45:04 01:30:48:12
They are using their position
to exterminate the best local people,

736 01:30:48:16 01:30:50:23
accusing them of made-up crimes.

737 01:30:51:22 01:30:56:03
They do this to undermine
the district administration

738 01:30:56:07 01:30:59:13
and to discredit Soviet law
in the eyes of the masses.

739 01:30:59:17 01:31:02:03
The leading workers of our area

740 01:31:02:07 01:31:05:04
are confused and frightened
by these NKVD crooks.

741 01:31:05:08 01:31:08:07
This affects the prosecutor’s office.

742 01:31:09:22 01:31:11:12
It's even possible

743 01:31:12:03 01:31:15:03
that some of them,
maybe against their will,

744 01:31:15:07 01:31:17:22
are working under
direct orders from the NKVD.

745 01:31:18:02 01:31:19:08
This is highly likely,

746 01:31:19:12 01:31:23:09
since everyone able to identify
the covert hostility of the NKVD

747 01:31:23:13 01:31:26:04
has been arrested or exterminated.

748 01:31:27:12 01:31:31:03
Devoted Party workers are replaced
with new incompetent people

749 01:31:31:07 01:31:34:15
who carry out the orders
of those loyal to the NKVD.

750 01:31:34:19 01:31:38:07
If any of them
guesses there's something fishy,

751 01:31:38:11 01:31:40:03
they pretend not to notice.

752 01:31:40:07 01:31:42:01
"Don’t touch us
and we won’t touch you".

753 01:31:42:05 01:31:44:20
That's how the system works,
Comrade Vyshinsky

754 01:31:45:17 01:31:49:15
Maybe there are some time-servers
whose silence has been bought

755 01:31:49:19 01:31:53:18
by their unexpected promotion,
usually beyond their abilities.

756 01:31:53:22 01:31:56:11
I could follow their example,
Comrade Vyshinsky.

757 01:31:57:05 01:31:59:12
But my conscience
as a Soviet citizen,

758 01:31:59:16 01:32:02:08
a Party member
and a member of the Soviet judiciary

759 01:32:02:12 01:32:03:21
stops me from doing this.

760 01:32:05:13 01:32:07:22
I cannot calmly watch these crimes
being committed

761 01:32:08:02 01:32:10:04
continually and on a mass scale.

762 01:32:11:07 01:32:15:02
The highest prosecuting authorities
must put a stop to them.

763 01:32:15:23 01:32:20:08
I think this highly destructive process
must be halted immediately.

764 01:32:26:16 01:32:31:23
You want the Chief Prosecutor’s office
to begin an urgent investigation

765 01:32:32:22 01:32:37:15
into the supposed counter-revolutionary
acts of the NKVD in your district?

766 01:32:37:19 01:32:39:16
Have I understood you correctly?

767 01:32:45:10 01:32:47:16
Absolutely correctly,
Comrade Vyshinsky!

768 01:32:52:12 01:32:54:09
In principle
this would be possible,

769 01:32:54:13 01:32:58:16
if it was a matter of
a normal government department.

770 01:32:59:11 01:33:03:08
But the NKVD, at this moment,

771 01:33:03:12 01:33:07:10
enjoys almost complete autonomy.

772 01:33:08:10 01:33:13:07
Even the Chief Prosecutor’s office
cannot raise a case against...

773 01:33:13:11 01:33:17:17
even an individual NKVD employee,

774 01:33:17:21 01:33:20:18
without the consent
of the NKVD leadership.

775 01:33:23:15 01:33:27:06
If there were strong documentary proof

776 01:33:27:10 01:33:31:07
of law-breaking in the NKVD,

777 01:33:31:21 01:33:35:17
then their leaders
would doubtless agree

778 01:33:35:21 01:33:39:19
to allow a case
against those wrongdoers.

779 01:33:41:06 01:33:42:12
Comrade...

780 01:33:42:21 01:33:43:17
Kornyev?

781 01:33:45:08 01:33:47:12
...said that he himself

782 01:33:47:16 01:33:51:03
saw torture marks
on the body of a particular prisoner.

783 01:33:52:04 01:33:54:20
Can you back up your observation

784 01:33:55:00 01:33:57:13
with medical evidence?

785 01:34:00:09 01:34:05:04
It’s the same prisoner who wrote
to our local office in his own blood.

786 01:34:06:20 01:34:08:02
He's an old Bolshevik,

787 01:34:08:06 01:34:10:11
he was a leading Party worker.

788 01:34:12:04 01:34:15:02
I'd like to explain
to the Comrade Prosecutor.

789 01:34:16:00 01:34:19:16
I could only get access
to the prisoner

790 01:34:19:20 01:34:22:23
after insisting that
the governor allow a meeting.

791 01:34:23:20 01:34:25:23
And this governor
would find excuses

792 01:34:26:03 01:34:29:20
to delay the appointment
of a medical commission,

793 01:34:30:00 01:34:32:23
until he has had time
to put me in prison too.

794 01:34:33:23 01:34:36:22
I am sure that he
and his senior staff

795 01:34:37:02 01:34:40:21
are in a plot with the criminal bosses
of the local NKVD.

796 01:34:42:10 01:34:48:06
So I decided to rely on the Prosecutor
General's personal trust in my report.

797 01:34:51:17 01:34:53:12
And frankly speaking,

798 01:34:53:23 01:34:58:02
I didn’t know that even a
secret investigation of a NKVD employee

799 01:34:58:13 01:35:00:18
requires documentary evidence.

800 01:35:01:09 01:35:02:05
Oh, yes,

801 01:35:05:04 01:35:07:12
for a lawyer, it is imprudent.

802 01:35:09:05 01:35:11:08
But the situation can be remedied.

803 01:35:11:18 01:35:13:00
Go back

804 01:35:13:04 01:35:16:15
and send us medical evidence
about the prisoner who was subjected,

805 01:35:16:19 01:35:20:07
as you assert,
to illegal methods of interrogation.

806 01:35:20:18 01:35:25:08
I promise that an investigation
of this case

807 01:35:25:20 01:35:27:14
will start immediately.

808 01:35:32:23 01:35:34:04
But...

809 01:35:36:07 01:35:38:04
if I go back empty-handed,

810 01:35:38:08 01:35:42:03
I will immediately be sacked

811 01:35:42:07 01:35:43:14
and arrested.

812 01:35:45:05 01:35:47:10
I'm sure the counter-revolutionaries

813 01:35:47:14 01:35:51:03
won't let anyone who knows
about their crimes go free.

814 01:36:12:05 01:36:15:19
Provide Comrade Kornyev
with confirmation that he met me.

815 01:36:16:11 01:36:20:07
Address it to his District Prosecutor.

816 01:36:21:07 01:36:24:19
That will allow you
to conduct your investigations

817 01:36:24:23 01:36:27:07
without risk
to your own safety.

818 01:36:29:21 01:36:32:12
And provide Comrade Kornyev

819 01:36:32:16 01:36:36:18
with a ticket for his return journey
from our reserved allocation.

820 01:36:37:23 01:36:42:10
Put down a short but detailed precis
of what was said in our meeting.

821 01:36:42:14 01:36:46:14
Send it with the medical certificate.

822 01:36:47:18 01:36:49:16
And enclose this as well.

823 01:36:49:20 01:36:54:07
It will serve as auxiliary evidence.

824 01:37:28:21 01:37:30:04
How did it go?

825 01:37:30:08 01:37:31:08
Not now.

826 01:38:04:05 01:38:05:08
Get in.

827 01:38:37:22 01:38:39:09
You're in here.

828 01:38:44:06 01:38:45:03
Good evening.

829 01:38:45:07 01:38:46:06
Hello.

830 01:38:48:08 01:38:49:17
Which seat are you in?

831 01:38:51:22 01:38:53:06
Number 5.

832 01:38:55:11 01:38:56:16
Let's make space.

833 01:38:56:20 01:38:58:19
Please sit down.

834 01:38:58:23 01:39:01:02
- You can leave that here.
- No.

835 01:39:02:14 01:39:04:10
I'll put this here...

836 01:39:06:01 01:39:07:16
And this will go there.

837 01:39:10:23 01:39:12:01
And this...

838 01:39:39:07 01:39:40:17
Ah, we're off!

839 01:39:50:04 01:39:51:04
From Moscow?

840 01:39:51:22 01:39:52:18
Me? No.

841 01:39:52:22 01:39:54:02
Where are you from?

842 01:39:54:12 01:39:55:08
Bryansk.

843 01:39:55:12 01:39:56:23
A student, are you?

844 01:39:57:14 01:39:59:20
I was.
I’ve got a job now.

845 01:40:01:05 01:40:02:08
What do you do?

846 01:40:02:23 01:40:03:19
I’m a lawyer,

847 01:40:03:23 01:40:06:01
member of
the defence lawyers' college.

848 01:40:06:05 01:40:08:03
Now I’m an inspecting prosecutor.

849 01:40:08:16 01:40:09:22
What does that mean?

850 01:40:14:04 01:40:16:00
I deal with citizens' complaints.

851 01:40:17:08 01:40:20:16
I make sure everything's done legally.

852 01:40:21:09 01:40:22:12
Well, well.

853 01:40:27:08 01:40:29:12
That’s a fine profession, Comrade.

854 01:40:34:13 01:40:35:14
An essential one.

855 01:40:37:17 01:40:38:21
Why were you in Moscow?

856 01:40:40:01 01:40:41:07
You got a girl there?

857 01:40:42:00 01:40:43:06
Not at all.

858 01:40:43:10 01:40:45:23
So why were you there,
if it's not a secret?

859 01:40:46:16 01:40:48:23
Business at the prosecutor's office.

860 01:40:50:15 01:40:52:20
In Moscow?
Don't you have one in Bryansk?

861 01:40:54:23 01:40:58:03
I went to meet the Prosecutor General.

862 01:40:58:20 01:41:00:02
Vyshinsky?

863 01:41:02:18 01:41:03:14
Yes.

864 01:41:04:15 01:41:07:15
Petya, he's so young
and yet he's met the Prosecutor General!

865 01:41:11:07 01:41:14:05
Oh, we haven't introduced ourselves:
Petya.

866 01:41:14:09 01:41:16:01
Alexander.
A pleasure to meet you.

867 01:41:16:05 01:41:17:16
- This is Vasya.
- Vasily.

868 01:41:17:20 01:41:19:03
A pleasure to meet you.

869 01:41:24:17 01:41:26:14
Just a minute.

870 01:41:30:15 01:41:32:10
Bring us some glasses.

871 01:41:33:07 01:41:35:03
Oh, not for me.

872 01:41:35:07 01:41:36:03
Not for you?

873 01:41:36:07 01:41:39:06
It'd be a sin
not to drink a toast to Soviet law.

874 01:42:00:15 01:42:01:19
Thank you.

875 01:42:05:05 01:42:06:20
Is there a guitar around?

876 01:42:07:17 01:42:09:03
I can bring sugar.

877 01:42:11:03 01:42:12:18
What a joker!

878 01:42:18:18 01:42:19:18
Now,

879 01:42:22:23 01:42:24:10
a toast to 'good order'!

880 01:42:25:22 01:42:27:03
To good order!

881 01:42:34:23 01:42:37:21
- Sasha, have some snacks!
- Thank you.

882 01:42:46:02 01:42:47:09
And what do you do?

883 01:42:51:06 01:42:52:17
We're liquidators.

884 01:43:01:05 01:43:02:04
We’re engineers.

885 01:43:02:08 01:43:04:14
From the Planning Institute
in Moscow.

886 01:43:05:22 01:43:08:00
We plan factories,
industrial plants,

887 01:43:08:04 01:43:09:20
the future, in a word.

888 01:43:10:10 01:43:11:20
You're architects.

889 01:43:12:00 01:43:14:22
Yes, we can do that too.

890 01:43:15:02 01:43:18:07
We're reconstructing a factory
in Bryansk, a complex project.

891 01:43:18:11 01:43:19:18
Machine tooling?

892 01:43:19:22 01:43:22:16
- It's the Red Profintern.
- But the technology's imported.

893 01:43:22:20 01:43:26:10
There are all sorts of hitches,
misunderstandings.

894 01:43:26:14 01:43:28:21
A month ago they installed a line...

895 01:43:29:16 01:43:33:14
Something went wrong just before
it was supposed to start production.

896 01:43:33:18 01:43:36:03
So we're off to sort it out.

897 01:43:37:12 01:43:40:11
Maybe human error,
maybe sabotage.

898 01:43:42:20 01:43:45:00
Well, you'd know better than us.

899 01:43:45:04 01:43:48:10
Yes, sometimes you don't know
if it's a mistake or sabotage.

900 01:43:48:14 01:43:50:17
Looks like a normal engineer.

901 01:43:50:21 01:43:52:13
Wife, kids, job.

902 01:43:52:17 01:43:56:02
Looks like everything's fine,
and blow me down, he's a saboteur.

903 01:43:56:06 01:43:59:17
You could scarcely believe it,
but they themselves confess.

904 01:44:01:07 01:44:02:23
- It's very scary.
- Yes.

905 01:44:07:16 01:44:10:04
You know yourself,
the times we're living in.

906 01:44:14:19 01:44:15:23
You must...

907 01:44:16:21 01:44:18:15
have to deal with enemies.

908 01:44:18:19 01:44:21:12
But how to know
if they're an enemy or not?

909 01:44:25:06 01:44:26:14
There are procedures.

910 01:44:26:18 01:44:30:12
If a crime has been committed,
an investigation is held.

911 01:44:31:13 01:44:32:21
That's after the event.

912 01:44:33:01 01:44:35:00
But if no crime has happened yet,

913 01:44:35:04 01:44:37:11
but the enemy is already present,
what then?

914 01:44:39:21 01:44:44:04
Then, according to Roman law,
there's a presumption of innocence.

915 01:44:45:19 01:44:47:22
Then there's sabotage.
Then what?

916 01:44:52:12 01:44:56:08
You can't sentence a person
before a crime has been committed.

917 01:44:57:05 01:44:59:20
So what do you do?
Wait till a crime's committed?

918 01:45:04:14 01:45:06:07
I understand your question...

919 01:45:06:11 01:45:07:15
Comrade Prosecutor,

920 01:45:07:19 01:45:08:20
Sasha,

921 01:45:10:05 01:45:11:18
we must be vigilant,

922 01:45:11:22 01:45:14:13
we mustn't drop

923 01:45:15:04 01:45:17:08
the punishing sword of Soviet law.

924 01:45:17:12 01:45:18:23
But we don't punish, we...

925 01:45:20:07 01:45:21:04
investigate.

926 01:45:21:08 01:45:23:14
And if there are grounds,
the courts punish.

927 01:45:25:10 01:45:28:02
- So that's it, 'we investigate'.
- Very fair.

928 01:45:28:13 01:45:29:18
To vigilance!

929 01:45:38:16 01:45:39:23
Come on, eat up!

930 01:45:40:12 01:45:41:10
Thank you.

931 01:45:41:14 01:45:43:07
Somebody wanted a guitar?

932 01:45:43:11 01:45:46:16
Thank you, dear host.
Now this is something else!

933 01:45:47:12 01:45:48:16
But I need...

934 01:45:51:12 01:45:52:19
- Here.
- Thank you.

935 01:45:54:14 01:45:55:15
Let's go.

936 01:46:00:16 01:46:01:19
Our song.

937 01:46:06:00 01:46:09:23
The morning greets us with coolness

938 01:46:10:03 01:46:13:00
The river greets us with a breeze

939 01:46:13:15 01:46:16:13
Curly-head, why aren't you pleased

940 01:46:17:00 01:46:20:02
With the merry song
of the factory siren?

941 01:46:20:06 01:46:22:21
Don’t sleep, wake up, Curly-head!

942 01:46:23:16 01:46:26:19
They're hammering in the workshops

943 01:46:26:23 01:46:30:17
The country rises in glory

944 01:46:30:21 01:46:33:12
To greet the new day

945 01:46:40:18 01:46:43:12
The brigade will meet us with tasks

946 01:46:44:04 01:46:47:09
And you will smile at your pals

947 01:46:47:19 01:46:50:12
With whom you share care and labour

948 01:46:50:16 01:46:53:14
And life and the counterplan

949 01:46:54:01 01:46:57:04
Beyond the Narva outpost

950 01:46:57:08 01:47:00:08
In thunder and in fire

951 01:47:00:12 01:47:03:16
The country rises in glory

952 01:47:03:20 01:47:06:18
To greet the new day

953 01:47:11:03 01:47:13:07
To greet the new day

954 01:47:15:19 01:47:16:23
Bam!

955 01:47:22:15 01:47:26:04
To the farthest corner

956 01:47:26:15 01:47:29:10
Our youth will go

957 01:47:29:14 01:47:31:22
Until a second youthful band

958 01:47:32:16 01:47:35:10
Comes to meet you

959 01:47:35:23 01:47:39:07
And a horde will spring into life

960 01:47:39:11 01:47:42:14
To take their fathers' places

961 01:47:42:18 01:47:45:23
The country rises in glory

962 01:47:46:03 01:47:49:04
To greet the new day

963 01:47:57:14 01:48:00:18
Declare your truth

964 01:48:01:14 01:48:04:16
With a splendid speech

965 01:48:04:20 01:48:08:04
We go out to meet life

966 01:48:08:14 01:48:11:23
To encounter labour and love!

967 01:48:12:03 01:48:15:14
Is it a sin to love, Curly-head?

968 01:48:15:18 01:48:18:13
When with sounds of ringing

969 01:48:19:04 01:48:22:09
The country rises in glory

970 01:48:22:13 01:48:25:01
To greet the new day

971 01:48:25:05 01:48:26:01
Repeat!

972 01:48:26:05 01:48:29:05
The country rises in glory

973 01:48:29:09 01:48:32:03
To greet the new day

974 01:49:24:07 01:49:27:07
Wake up, Comrade lawyer!
We’ll be there in half an hour.

975 01:49:36:01 01:49:37:04
Comrade Ivanov?

976 01:49:37:08 01:49:38:17
Yes. Comrade Petrov?

977 01:49:40:12 01:49:42:19
- Are you from the management?
- Exactly.

978 01:49:42:23 01:49:44:01
Is he with you?

979 01:49:44:05 01:49:45:10
Comrade Kornyev.

980 01:49:45:14 01:49:46:12
Good day.

981 01:49:48:12 01:49:49:20
You're going by car?

982 01:49:50:00 01:49:51:21
Comrade, could you give me a lift?

983 01:49:52:01 01:49:53:14
Shall we take him, Vasya?

984 01:49:54:10 01:49:55:12
Let's go.

985 01:49:55:16 01:49:56:21
Thank you.

986 01:50:55:01 01:50:57:13
You've got girls in this town of yours,
right?

987 01:50:59:12 01:51:00:08
Obviously.

988 01:51:00:12 01:51:01:20
Good-looking ones?

989 01:51:04:18 01:51:06:15
Yes, some good-looking ones, too.

990 01:51:13:15 01:51:15:04
Do they give it away easily?

991 01:51:18:15 01:51:19:13
Give what away?

992 01:51:23:20 01:51:27:01
What do you mean "give what away"?
Are you a blushing bride?

993 01:51:37:06 01:51:38:11
I'm unmarried.

994 01:51:39:03 01:51:40:11
Oh-ho, I see.

995 01:51:42:17 01:51:44:20
And you've never tried it?
Not even once?

996 01:51:45:00 01:51:46:09
What are you talking about?

997 01:51:46:13 01:51:48:13
No need to be shy.
You're among friends here.

998 01:51:48:17 01:51:50:06
He won't tell anyone.

999 01:51:50:23 01:51:52:04
Come on, spit it out.

1000 01:51:53:21 01:51:55:09
Are you still a virgin?

1001 01:52:04:18 01:52:06:11
Wait, we've taken a wrong turning.

1002 01:52:06:15 01:52:09:10
I'm not dropping you anywhere,
until you tell all.

1003 01:52:11:02 01:52:12:11
Come on, spit it out.

1004 01:52:13:14 01:52:16:02
We're all dying to know,
aren't we, Vasya?

1005 01:52:18:09 01:52:19:14
Where are we going?

1006 01:52:20:22 01:52:22:05
We're taking you...

1007 01:52:23:13 01:52:24:16
to be investigated.

1008 01:52:25:06 01:52:26:18
"If there are grounds".

1009 01:52:40:15 01:52:41:12
Open the door.

1010 01:52:41:16 01:52:43:04
Take it easy, Kornyev.

1011 01:52:50:18 01:52:52:02
You're under arrest.

1012 01:57:55:05 01:57:58:14
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