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{\an8}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.
272
00:41:46,883 --> 00:41:51,597
Show me your professional accreditation,
Citizen...
273
00:41:52,806 --> 00:41:54,558
Prosecutor.
274
00:41:57,311 --> 00:42:00,814
You don’t trust
the representative of the authorities?
275
00:42:05,486 --> 00:42:07,446
I don’t trust you!
276
00:42:10,616 --> 00:42:14,035
The prisoner is within his rights
to check who I really am.
277
00:42:34,390 --> 00:42:37,184
Order them to unlock my bunk.
278
00:42:37,934 --> 00:42:40,312
Then there’ll be somewhere to sit.
279
00:42:43,106 --> 00:42:44,733
Please unlock the bunk.
280
00:43:28,485 --> 00:43:29,945
And now...
281
00:43:30,862 --> 00:43:33,615
get them to leave us alone.
282
00:43:34,908 --> 00:43:38,162
I won’t speak in front of outsiders.
283
00:43:38,329 --> 00:43:39,996
I’m not an outsider!
284
00:43:40,164 --> 00:43:43,041
It's my duty
to keep you under observation.
285
00:43:43,209 --> 00:43:46,503
He can observe us through
the ‘Judas’ hole.
286
00:43:48,172 --> 00:43:52,468
I have no intention
of attacking the prosecutor.
287
00:43:53,302 --> 00:43:57,764
But I absolutely insist
that our discussion is private.
288
00:43:59,266 --> 00:44:01,017
That is my right.
289
00:44:03,437 --> 00:44:06,106
Leave us please,
he's within his rights.
290
00:44:10,944 --> 00:44:12,279
Leave us.
291
00:44:52,944 --> 00:44:56,448
It's difficult for me to stand.
292
00:45:03,121 --> 00:45:05,207
I’m here because of this note.
293
00:45:08,043 --> 00:45:09,378
Did you write it?
294
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:20,931
I did.
295
00:45:25,018 --> 00:45:30,691
I had to smash my knuckle
against a bit of metal.
296
00:45:31,275 --> 00:45:35,279
There's nothing sharp in this cell.
297
00:45:37,823 --> 00:45:42,077
Before using your own blood,
did you ask for a pencil and paper?
298
00:45:44,705 --> 00:45:45,997
I did.
299
00:45:47,166 --> 00:45:49,585
But of course they didn’t provide it.
300
00:45:53,547 --> 00:45:58,344
How did you get your message
out of the prison?
301
00:45:58,885 --> 00:46:01,347
No need to answer if it's a secret.
302
00:46:01,513 --> 00:46:03,807
What secret?
303
00:46:05,559 --> 00:46:08,395
I simply gave it to the warder,
304
00:46:08,562 --> 00:46:12,566
on a wing and a prayer,
as they say,
305
00:46:14,651 --> 00:46:16,278
and as you see,
306
00:46:17,238 --> 00:46:19,323
it escaped beyond these walls.
307
00:46:34,421 --> 00:46:37,299
Are you really
from the prosecutor’s office?
308
00:46:39,801 --> 00:46:42,263
You've seen my accreditation.
309
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:48,602
It's child's play for the local branch
of the NKVD
310
00:46:48,769 --> 00:46:51,897
to forge such stuff.
311
00:46:52,439 --> 00:46:56,152
So maybe this document
will dispel your doubts about me?
312
00:47:10,791 --> 00:47:14,170
So you studied in the law faculty.
313
00:47:16,087 --> 00:47:17,673
You graduated?
314
00:47:18,549 --> 00:47:20,426
Yes, three months ago.
315
00:47:21,218 --> 00:47:23,970
And how did you end up
in the prosecutor's office?
316
00:47:24,137 --> 00:47:25,847
Through the university quota.
317
00:47:26,348 --> 00:47:31,895
So, the local NKVD
have infiltrated
318
00:47:32,062 --> 00:47:34,231
the prosecutor’s office,
319
00:47:34,940 --> 00:47:37,359
if lads like you...
320
00:47:39,361 --> 00:47:42,156
who are still wet behind the ears,
321
00:47:42,323 --> 00:47:43,865
are being appointed.
322
00:48:28,785 --> 00:48:30,454
Ivan Stepanovich.
323
00:48:39,671 --> 00:48:44,009
Do you remember the speech you made
at our law school jubilee?
324
00:48:51,099 --> 00:48:52,142
Yes,
325
00:48:54,186 --> 00:48:56,438
I was there at your school.
326
00:48:59,566 --> 00:49:00,984
What of it?
327
00:49:02,110 --> 00:49:06,990
You said that the Soviet rule of law
is part of the great Bolshevik Truth,
328
00:49:07,699 --> 00:49:12,078
and that when we became lawyers,
we should fight for this Truth.
329
00:49:13,414 --> 00:49:15,791
I paid great attention to your words,
330
00:49:16,167 --> 00:49:19,170
and took them
as more than just fine rhetoric.
331
00:49:32,057 --> 00:49:34,017
You understood correctly.
332
00:49:34,726 --> 00:49:36,645
It was all just as I said.
333
00:49:38,730 --> 00:49:40,691
We fought against the Whites...
334
00:49:41,817 --> 00:49:44,486
for the worker-peasant Truth.
335
00:49:44,653 --> 00:49:47,198
We were banged up
336
00:49:47,364 --> 00:49:50,951
in vaults like this.
337
00:49:52,536 --> 00:49:54,205
We were sentenced
338
00:49:54,371 --> 00:49:56,915
to be shot,
339
00:49:57,082 --> 00:49:58,459
or hanged.
340
00:50:03,672 --> 00:50:06,425
And doesn't defending Soviet law
341
00:50:06,592 --> 00:50:08,802
still entail
risks and difficulties now?
342
00:50:23,942 --> 00:50:26,903
It seems you’re not stupid, lad.
343
00:50:28,822 --> 00:50:33,202
And since you're not stupid
and you still came here,
344
00:50:33,994 --> 00:50:36,121
you are clearly honourable,
345
00:50:37,539 --> 00:50:38,790
and no coward.
346
00:50:42,919 --> 00:50:44,463
You’re not married yet?
347
00:50:47,924 --> 00:50:48,925
No.
348
00:50:49,092 --> 00:50:52,471
Are your father and mother
still alive?
349
00:50:52,638 --> 00:50:54,223
No, they're dead.
350
00:50:58,810 --> 00:51:02,731
Then listen to what I have to say.
351
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,484
But first, look at what...
352
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:13,450
the NKVD did to me.
353
00:51:15,494 --> 00:51:18,079
Just don’t show any reaction!
354
00:51:21,041 --> 00:51:25,171
We don’t want the man
at the 'Judas' hole to know about it.
355
00:52:31,237 --> 00:52:33,697
That’s how things are, laddy.
356
00:52:34,240 --> 00:52:36,325
You saw what I’m coughing up.
357
00:52:36,700 --> 00:52:38,702
My urine is also red.
358
00:52:39,495 --> 00:52:42,414
Once, during the Revolution,
359
00:52:43,081 --> 00:52:45,584
I got thrashed by some Kulaks.
360
00:52:47,753 --> 00:52:51,798
But I was young and curly-headed then.
361
00:52:51,965 --> 00:52:53,592
I could cope.
362
00:52:54,676 --> 00:52:55,969
But now,
363
00:52:57,554 --> 00:52:59,055
another dose...
364
00:53:01,099 --> 00:53:02,726
will finish me off.
365
00:53:04,770 --> 00:53:07,731
It's already hopeless.
366
00:53:12,027 --> 00:53:13,987
And what are they holding you for?
367
00:53:14,155 --> 00:53:17,199
Not 'what', but 'why?'.
368
00:53:19,075 --> 00:53:22,538
I have a stubborn character.
369
00:53:23,872 --> 00:53:28,126
I won't sign a death warrant
370
00:53:29,127 --> 00:53:32,964
for myself,
or other innocent people.
371
00:53:35,091 --> 00:53:40,764
But that's
what they want from me...
372
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,899
These undercover fascists
from the NKVD.
373
00:53:52,568 --> 00:53:56,071
The investigation block
374
00:53:56,238 --> 00:54:01,993
is now
a vast torture chamber,
375
00:54:03,787 --> 00:54:08,209
where thousands of innocent people
376
00:54:08,375 --> 00:54:10,711
undergo...
377
00:54:12,713 --> 00:54:14,340
such beatings.
378
00:54:14,923 --> 00:54:18,219
They are starved
and deprived of sleep,
379
00:54:18,927 --> 00:54:22,806
until they make...
380
00:54:25,100 --> 00:54:27,644
false confessions
381
00:54:29,355 --> 00:54:30,689
against themselves
382
00:54:31,064 --> 00:54:32,399
and others.
383
00:54:33,567 --> 00:54:38,405
Honest people are accused of crimes
they wouldn’t dream of committing.
384
00:54:38,822 --> 00:54:44,245
The same story in the courts,
which are also controlled by the NKVD.
385
00:54:45,871 --> 00:54:48,707
They deal especially harshly
386
00:54:49,541 --> 00:54:52,127
with old Party members.
387
00:54:53,337 --> 00:54:59,426
Here they have exterminated
almost the entire Party leadership.
388
00:55:00,636 --> 00:55:02,638
It seems that,
389
00:55:03,639 --> 00:55:09,060
out of all the members
of the district committee,
390
00:55:10,896 --> 00:55:13,023
I'm the last survivor...
391
00:55:14,733 --> 00:55:21,282
because I was more obstinate
than the old Party members,
392
00:55:21,448 --> 00:55:25,035
and refused to sign anything.
393
00:55:27,246 --> 00:55:30,166
They wanted me to sign a confession
394
00:55:30,874 --> 00:55:34,002
that when I was with the partisans
fighting in Ukraine,
395
00:55:34,170 --> 00:55:36,588
I was a secret agent of Petliura.
396
00:55:42,052 --> 00:55:45,055
The local fascists
397
00:55:45,222 --> 00:55:49,560
make their victim confess
to imaginary crimes
398
00:55:50,686 --> 00:55:53,772
before they can shoot them.
399
00:55:55,566 --> 00:55:59,195
They need innocent people
to incriminate themselves,
400
00:56:00,821 --> 00:56:05,409
in order to justify their actions
401
00:56:05,576 --> 00:56:09,413
to the higher authorities.
402
00:56:11,665 --> 00:56:15,126
"See how vigilant we are,
403
00:56:15,294 --> 00:56:20,048
"how keenly we root out subversion
in our own house."
404
00:56:22,968 --> 00:56:25,387
They fear being unmasked,
405
00:56:26,430 --> 00:56:30,016
they try to do everything...
406
00:56:31,017 --> 00:56:32,394
by the law.
407
00:56:34,521 --> 00:56:39,735
Of course, the executioners
from the district authority
408
00:56:40,402 --> 00:56:46,742
can easily beat
an obstinate detainee to death,
409
00:56:48,827 --> 00:56:52,539
but it is an undesirable measure.
410
00:56:53,915 --> 00:56:56,543
So they preserve...
411
00:56:58,128 --> 00:57:02,048
people like me.
412
00:57:04,260 --> 00:57:07,846
They hope that a man
413
00:57:09,973 --> 00:57:12,768
with smashed up internal organs
414
00:57:13,852 --> 00:57:16,104
won’t last long.
415
00:57:18,482 --> 00:57:22,068
But my official cause of death
416
00:57:22,236 --> 00:57:24,363
will be ‘heart failure’,
417
00:57:25,406 --> 00:57:29,535
in this very prison.
418
00:57:35,624 --> 00:57:38,419
These enemies of the people...
419
00:57:39,253 --> 00:57:41,963
saboteurs from the NKVD,
420
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,009
don’t break tools,
421
00:57:46,177 --> 00:57:49,221
or burn down factories.
422
00:57:50,096 --> 00:57:54,393
Loyal old Party leaders
423
00:57:55,186 --> 00:57:57,062
are replaced by...
424
00:57:58,980 --> 00:58:01,233
young careerists
425
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:02,984
and loud mouths.
426
00:58:03,527 --> 00:58:07,113
And honest, knowledgeable experts
427
00:58:07,781 --> 00:58:12,203
are substituted by ignorant charlatans.
428
00:58:14,288 --> 00:58:16,790
I’m not asking for myself,
429
00:58:16,957 --> 00:58:19,042
I’ve had it anyway.
430
00:58:20,419 --> 00:58:23,129
It grieves me to see
431
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,342
our revolutionary project endangered.
432
00:58:32,389 --> 00:58:34,308
If you are a brave man,
433
00:58:34,975 --> 00:58:37,102
a real Bolshevik,
434
00:58:38,144 --> 00:58:41,815
an honest Soviet lawyer,
435
00:58:43,108 --> 00:58:46,945
then set off for Moscow today.
436
00:58:49,030 --> 00:58:51,700
Get a meeting with Stalin.
437
00:58:53,244 --> 00:58:54,953
If you can’t get to him,
438
00:58:56,037 --> 00:58:59,375
approach a member
of the Politburo...
439
00:59:01,001 --> 00:59:02,711
Yezhov, Voroshilov,
440
00:59:03,962 --> 00:59:05,589
Molotov.
441
00:59:07,258 --> 00:59:11,011
Report to them that here,
442
00:59:13,555 --> 00:59:16,808
the cream of the Party
is being exterminated,
443
00:59:17,768 --> 00:59:23,440
hundreds of thousands
of honest Soviet people.
444
00:59:27,778 --> 00:59:29,946
And don’t delay.
445
00:59:31,114 --> 00:59:35,118
You insisted on a meeting with me...
446
00:59:36,662 --> 00:59:40,207
so they won't leave you in peace.
447
00:59:40,916 --> 00:59:43,502
Before you know it...
448
00:59:44,586 --> 00:59:46,046
you yourself
449
00:59:47,214 --> 00:59:50,467
will end up in a hole like this one.
450
01:00:37,473 --> 01:00:38,807
Open up!
451
01:02:20,617 --> 01:02:22,286
He's left the block.
452
01:02:24,413 --> 01:02:26,165
He'll reach you shortly.
453
01:02:27,666 --> 01:02:31,170
Wait, yes, yes.
454
01:02:33,214 --> 01:02:35,716
In general, this work
needs to be done sooner...
455
01:02:35,882 --> 01:02:37,218
rather than later.
456
01:02:43,724 --> 01:02:46,101
They’re allowing idiots to graduate.
457
01:03:25,849 --> 01:03:27,851
After the campaign
458
01:03:28,018 --> 01:03:31,146
in 1916 at Kovel,
459
01:03:31,605 --> 01:03:32,773
my good sir!
460
01:03:35,692 --> 01:03:37,736
I lost me leg
and me arm.
461
01:03:38,529 --> 01:03:44,535
At that time there weren’t no benefits
for war invalids.
462
01:03:44,701 --> 01:03:46,578
Them benefits only came later...
463
01:03:47,871 --> 01:03:51,124
So I sees that I’ll have to work
464
01:03:51,292 --> 01:03:53,419
with just me left hand.
465
01:03:54,503 --> 01:03:56,630
I thought I'd go home to me father.
466
01:03:56,797 --> 01:03:58,882
He says,
"I’ve got nothing to feed you on",
467
01:03:59,049 --> 01:04:00,676
can you imagine it?
468
01:04:00,842 --> 01:04:03,429
"I can hardly get a crust of bread
for meself."
469
01:04:03,595 --> 01:04:04,888
So I set off for Petersburg,
470
01:04:05,389 --> 01:04:07,724
to ask Lenin
471
01:04:07,891 --> 01:04:10,977
if there's any alms
for the proletarian poor,
472
01:04:11,144 --> 01:04:15,106
seeing as how, so to speak,
I shed me blood!
473
01:04:15,566 --> 01:04:17,067
Laid down me life!
474
01:04:17,234 --> 01:04:19,570
And did you get
alms from Lenin?
475
01:04:19,986 --> 01:04:22,113
Hang on.
Don’t rush me.
476
01:04:22,281 --> 01:04:23,990
See this learned young man here,
477
01:04:24,158 --> 01:04:26,076
he needs everything
in the right order.
478
01:04:26,243 --> 01:04:29,746
So, you know,
one way and another,
479
01:04:29,913 --> 01:04:32,708
in carts and so on,
my good sir,
480
01:04:32,874 --> 01:04:35,752
I somehow got to Petersburg.
481
01:04:36,378 --> 01:04:39,173
Well, can you picture it?
482
01:04:39,340 --> 01:04:42,843
This lice-ridden soldier boy
483
01:04:43,009 --> 01:04:44,845
in the capital city,
484
01:04:45,011 --> 01:04:48,056
which is like no other in the world!
485
01:04:48,599 --> 01:04:52,143
There's Nevsky Prospect.
486
01:04:52,686 --> 01:04:54,980
Goddamit,
there's Gorokhovaya Street...
487
01:04:55,981 --> 01:04:57,358
and Liteyny Prospect.
488
01:04:57,524 --> 01:04:59,860
Some spire sticks up in the air,
489
01:05:00,026 --> 01:05:02,070
bridges open up,
goddamit,
490
01:05:02,238 --> 01:05:03,947
without anything holding 'em up!
491
01:05:04,114 --> 01:05:06,742
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
492
01:05:06,908 --> 01:05:08,369
Don’t drag it out, Pegleg!
493
01:05:08,535 --> 01:05:09,995
Don't rush,
494
01:05:10,162 --> 01:05:12,122
you might have seen it all.
495
01:05:12,289 --> 01:05:15,417
But he’s a young man,
hasn't been there.
496
01:05:15,584 --> 01:05:18,003
Probably never had a woman!
497
01:05:19,004 --> 01:05:19,880
Hey?
498
01:05:22,674 --> 01:05:24,968
I wanted to rent an apartment,
499
01:05:25,135 --> 01:05:27,846
but it would've have cost a fortune!
500
01:05:28,597 --> 01:05:30,974
But me capital assets
501
01:05:31,141 --> 01:05:33,519
came to a few fivers.
502
01:05:34,019 --> 01:05:37,731
I found shelter in the Revel inn
503
01:05:37,898 --> 01:05:39,233
for a rouble a night.
504
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:41,402
Dinner was cabbage soup.
505
01:05:41,568 --> 01:05:43,695
I sees that I won't survive for long.
506
01:05:43,862 --> 01:05:45,656
I asked where to turn to.
507
01:05:45,822 --> 01:05:47,908
People said
"Go to the Smolny...
508
01:05:48,284 --> 01:05:49,701
"to Lenin himself,
509
01:05:50,118 --> 01:05:52,246
"to the heart of Soviet power."
510
01:05:53,164 --> 01:05:55,999
"That’s where justice lives."
511
01:05:56,625 --> 01:05:58,084
What idiot
512
01:05:58,252 --> 01:05:59,878
gave you that advice?
513
01:06:00,045 --> 01:06:03,424
Shut up, Turnip head.
Better keep listening.
514
01:06:03,590 --> 01:06:06,635
I got up ever so early,
515
01:06:06,802 --> 01:06:09,971
scraped off me beard
with me left hand,
516
01:06:10,138 --> 01:06:13,016
to save on a barber,
517
01:06:13,642 --> 01:06:16,102
put on me shabby uniform
518
01:06:16,270 --> 01:06:18,146
and me wooden leg
519
01:06:18,314 --> 01:06:20,023
and tap-tap-tap...
520
01:06:20,191 --> 01:06:21,692
can you picture it?
521
01:06:21,858 --> 01:06:24,361
I set off to see Lenin
522
01:06:24,528 --> 01:06:25,821
in the Smolny.
523
01:06:26,447 --> 01:06:31,034
There's mirrors, vases,
white ceilings,
524
01:06:31,202 --> 01:06:33,662
columns,
precious marble things!
525
01:06:33,829 --> 01:06:35,706
People scurrying to and fro.
526
01:06:35,872 --> 01:06:37,458
Could hardly get past them.
527
01:06:37,624 --> 01:06:40,752
They say "Go, if you must."
528
01:06:40,919 --> 01:06:43,297
So I rushed about here and there.
529
01:06:43,922 --> 01:06:46,091
Everybody had seen Lenin,
530
01:06:46,258 --> 01:06:48,927
but nobody knew where he was.
531
01:06:49,595 --> 01:06:53,390
I tapped along on me wooden leg
to some reception room,
532
01:06:53,557 --> 01:06:56,352
tucked meself in a corner
so I wouldn't knock over
533
01:06:56,518 --> 01:07:00,105
some sort of America or India
gilded porcelain vase,
534
01:07:00,272 --> 01:07:01,690
and there I waits.
535
01:07:02,316 --> 01:07:04,276
I waits four hours,
536
01:07:04,443 --> 01:07:07,904
until finally an adjutant
537
01:07:08,071 --> 01:07:10,031
or some other clerk,
comes in,
538
01:07:10,657 --> 01:07:11,950
and he says:
539
01:07:12,618 --> 01:07:15,329
"Lenin will come in now".
540
01:07:15,496 --> 01:07:20,167
And the room’s already crammed
like a tin of sardines.
541
01:07:20,334 --> 01:07:25,506
All with red ribbons
and smoking shag baccy.
542
01:07:25,672 --> 01:07:29,385
Suddenly people go
"Shh, shh, shh",
543
01:07:30,927 --> 01:07:33,096
and then a terrible silence falls.
544
01:07:33,889 --> 01:07:34,723
Lenin comes in.
545
01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:39,686
Well...
546
01:07:40,479 --> 01:07:42,022
Can you imagine?
547
01:07:42,189 --> 01:07:43,732
A statesman.
548
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,735
On his face an expression,
so to say...
549
01:07:46,902 --> 01:07:48,612
well, fitting with his rank,
550
01:07:49,155 --> 01:07:51,615
with his high level.
551
01:07:52,115 --> 01:07:54,618
Everyone in that hall expects,
trembles,
552
01:07:54,785 --> 01:07:59,456
waits for their fate to be decided,
in some measure.
553
01:08:00,207 --> 01:08:01,875
Lenin goes up to one...
554
01:08:02,376 --> 01:08:03,210
then another.
555
01:08:03,377 --> 01:08:07,256
"What are you here for?
And you? What is your business?"
556
01:08:07,923 --> 01:08:09,758
He comes up to me,
I dares to say:
557
01:08:09,925 --> 01:08:14,180
"It’s like this, Your Excellency,
leader of the proletarian revolution:
558
01:08:14,345 --> 01:08:18,184
"I spilt me blood,
lost an arm and a leg, cannot work,
559
01:08:18,349 --> 01:08:21,144
"I make so bold
as to request royal alms."
560
01:08:21,977 --> 01:08:24,565
Lenin gives me a shrewd look...
561
01:08:25,231 --> 01:08:26,775
sees that I’ve got a wooden leg
562
01:08:26,942 --> 01:08:29,069
and me right sleeve is empty.
563
01:08:29,985 --> 01:08:31,071
"Very well", he says.
564
01:08:31,237 --> 01:08:32,948
"Come back in a few days."
565
01:08:33,489 --> 01:08:36,076
"We are always happy to see
any proletarian,
566
01:08:36,242 --> 01:08:38,579
"even one minus an arm
and minus a leg."
567
01:08:38,744 --> 01:08:41,165
He never!
568
01:08:41,332 --> 01:08:42,666
That's just what he said!
569
01:08:42,833 --> 01:08:43,709
Yes...
570
01:08:43,874 --> 01:08:46,044
"Come back, dear fellow."
571
01:08:47,002 --> 01:08:49,505
I think "that's all".
572
01:08:50,716 --> 01:08:52,050
"The job's done."
573
01:08:55,346 --> 01:08:57,097
And what happened next?
574
01:08:57,681 --> 01:08:58,639
What d'you mean?
575
01:08:58,807 --> 01:09:00,684
After that, what happened?
576
01:09:01,852 --> 01:09:02,768
Nothing.
577
01:09:02,936 --> 01:09:05,271
What d'you mean, "nothing"?
578
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:07,733
You seem to have lived long enough
579
01:09:07,898 --> 01:09:09,360
to lose all yer teeth,
580
01:09:11,026 --> 01:09:12,821
but you don’t understand a thing.
581
01:09:13,197 --> 01:09:14,573
But what about Lenin?
582
01:09:16,157 --> 01:09:18,494
That was the last
I saw of Lenin!
583
01:09:18,659 --> 01:09:20,579
I comes one day,
then another.
584
01:09:21,036 --> 01:09:22,248
It was a bitter pill...
585
01:09:22,413 --> 01:09:24,665
"Come tomorrow,
tomorrow."
586
01:09:24,833 --> 01:09:25,959
I got fed up.
587
01:09:26,126 --> 01:09:31,215
I kicked up such a fuss that a constable
appeared out of the haze of baccy smoke,
588
01:09:31,382 --> 01:09:35,261
and stood in front of me.
589
01:09:35,636 --> 01:09:38,847
He must’ve been 7 foot tall,
590
01:09:39,390 --> 01:09:41,807
with enormous fists,
591
01:09:42,893 --> 01:09:44,645
designed for bashing coachmen,
592
01:09:44,810 --> 01:09:46,522
he would make such a dentist...
593
01:09:46,687 --> 01:09:48,774
So, they caught hold of me,
a poor sinner,
594
01:09:48,939 --> 01:09:51,235
and took me
to an alms house.
595
01:09:51,985 --> 01:09:55,989
I lived at the state's expense,
I got me allowance.
596
01:09:56,615 --> 01:09:58,409
Then Lenin died.
597
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,328
Now I’m off to see Stalin.
598
01:10:01,495 --> 01:10:03,830
They say
he’s got a heart of gold.
599
01:10:07,543 --> 01:10:09,127
It ain't for meself
600
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:12,673
that I shed me blood,
sacrificed me life.
601
01:10:14,591 --> 01:10:16,009
So I want to ask you,
602
01:10:16,843 --> 01:10:18,470
a learned man,
603
01:10:19,763 --> 01:10:21,765
d'you think
he'll give me alms?
604
01:14:50,867 --> 01:14:53,579
Are you looking for someone,
young man?
605
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:54,955
Yes.
606
01:14:55,581 --> 01:14:56,582
Who?
607
01:14:58,209 --> 01:15:01,127
The Prosecutor General.
I have business with him.
608
01:15:02,588 --> 01:15:06,675
If you have business with him,
you should know where to find him.
609
01:15:29,406 --> 01:15:30,407
Yes?
610
01:15:33,910 --> 01:15:34,870
Sorry?
611
01:15:35,036 --> 01:15:37,623
The way out.
Where’s the way out?
612
01:15:39,791 --> 01:15:42,294
Down the stairs and turn left.
613
01:15:46,006 --> 01:15:47,258
Are you feeling alright?
614
01:15:47,424 --> 01:15:48,467
Yes.
615
01:16:16,745 --> 01:16:19,540
Fancy seeing you here, old chap!
616
01:16:20,081 --> 01:16:21,208
Well, congrats!
617
01:16:21,875 --> 01:16:22,834
Congrats!
618
01:16:23,627 --> 01:16:28,257
I always had faith in you.
I always knew that you’d go far!
619
01:16:28,424 --> 01:16:31,092
What a great chap you are!
And how grown up you are.
620
01:16:31,260 --> 01:16:33,512
In all respects, I gather?
621
01:16:34,346 --> 01:16:35,806
Do we really know each other?
622
01:16:35,972 --> 01:16:38,725
This is Comrade Mrazovich.
623
01:16:38,892 --> 01:16:42,771
This is a former classmate of mine,
a high flyer, you could say...
624
01:16:43,564 --> 01:16:44,731
Mrazovich.
625
01:16:44,898 --> 01:16:46,442
- Kornyev.
- Kornyev!
626
01:16:46,608 --> 01:16:49,903
That’s what I said, Kornyev.
This is Kornyev. He’s a real artist.
627
01:16:50,070 --> 01:16:52,364
- Call in and see me.
- Yes, yes.
628
01:16:53,532 --> 01:16:56,660
A big fish.
If you need something, he's the one.
629
01:16:57,328 --> 01:16:59,913
When were you transferred?
What department are you in?
630
01:17:01,165 --> 01:17:01,832
I've co--
631
01:17:01,998 --> 01:17:03,834
Of course, I didn’t think
you'd come to see me.
632
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:06,837
What’s the case,
if it’s no secret?
633
01:17:07,963 --> 01:17:08,797
Sorry,
634
01:17:08,964 --> 01:17:10,632
have we really met before?
635
01:17:10,799 --> 01:17:13,051
Kornyev, stop playing the fool.
636
01:17:14,470 --> 01:17:16,513
Call in on me afterwards.
637
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:19,600
Room 312.
No need to knock.
638
01:17:20,100 --> 01:17:21,185
Alright.
639
01:17:53,425 --> 01:17:55,010
How can I help?
640
01:17:55,636 --> 01:17:58,555
Good day.
I've come to see the Prosecutor General.
641
01:18:33,006 --> 01:18:34,675
Have you received an appointment?
642
01:18:34,841 --> 01:18:35,801
No.
643
01:18:39,388 --> 01:18:41,890
Comrade Kornyev,
644
01:18:42,308 --> 01:18:45,227
the Prosecutor General
only meets people
645
01:18:45,852 --> 01:18:48,397
at the invitation
of the Chief Prosecutor's office
646
01:18:48,564 --> 01:18:50,191
so I'm afraid
I can't help you.
647
01:18:53,235 --> 01:18:57,823
I have come a very long way
on extremely important state business.
648
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:03,829
Everyone's here on important business.
649
01:19:07,040 --> 01:19:09,293
Have you got a travel warrant?
650
01:19:12,379 --> 01:19:13,380
No.
651
01:19:13,839 --> 01:19:14,923
But...
652
01:19:16,091 --> 01:19:17,593
it's a very important matter.
653
01:19:20,346 --> 01:19:22,348
If that’s the case, Comrade,
654
01:19:22,514 --> 01:19:25,476
then why didn’t your office bother
655
01:19:25,642 --> 01:19:29,605
to get you an appointment
well in advance?
656
01:19:29,771 --> 01:19:33,359
Why doesn’t Comrade Kornyev
at least possess a travel warrant,
657
01:19:33,525 --> 01:19:38,071
confirming that he has some business
with the Chief Prosecutor's office?
658
01:19:38,239 --> 01:19:41,283
I can't even include your name
on the ‘doubtfuls’ list,
659
01:19:41,450 --> 01:19:45,996
on which the Prosecutor General
himself will make a decision.
660
01:19:52,127 --> 01:19:53,837
Here.
I’m a party member.
661
01:19:54,380 --> 01:19:57,591
I came to inform the Prosecutor General
662
01:19:57,966 --> 01:20:00,886
of a vital and urgent matter,
663
01:20:01,052 --> 01:20:03,389
and I need to see him privately,
face to face.
664
01:20:03,555 --> 01:20:06,099
It can't be done on paper
as you propose.
665
01:20:07,058 --> 01:20:09,520
It's in your interests
to take this seriously.
666
01:20:28,414 --> 01:20:29,080
Thank you.
667
01:20:29,248 --> 01:20:30,207
Goodbye.
668
01:20:52,103 --> 01:20:53,189
Please.
669
01:21:00,946 --> 01:21:02,406
- Go through.
- Thank you.
670
01:21:19,256 --> 01:21:22,801
Fine. I'll report your presence
to the Prosecutor General
671
01:21:22,968 --> 01:21:25,011
and will inform you
of his decision.
672
01:21:26,012 --> 01:21:28,182
Wait in the reception room.
Please.
673
01:21:28,724 --> 01:21:29,725
Thank you.
674
01:22:00,464 --> 01:22:01,298
Thank you.
675
01:22:01,465 --> 01:22:02,466
Goodbye.
676
01:22:26,948 --> 01:22:28,534
Comrade Zavtrakin!
677
01:22:36,417 --> 01:22:37,418
Please.
678
01:24:01,042 --> 01:24:02,378
Please go in.
679
01:25:11,071 --> 01:25:12,156
Thank you, goodbye.
680
01:25:12,323 --> 01:25:13,282
Goodbye.
681
01:25:25,043 --> 01:25:26,628
Comrade Smirnov!
682
01:26:00,912 --> 01:26:02,289
You are lucky.
683
01:26:02,456 --> 01:26:05,334
The Comrade Prosecutor General
has agreed to see you
684
01:26:05,501 --> 01:26:06,918
against all the odds.
685
01:26:13,509 --> 01:26:15,802
But you would do well
to remember
686
01:26:16,345 --> 01:26:19,890
that you have come to see one of
the busiest people in the government.
687
01:26:20,056 --> 01:26:22,268
Therefore be brief,
688
01:26:22,434 --> 01:26:26,397
don’t waste
the Comrade's precious time.
689
01:26:26,813 --> 01:26:29,065
Two or three minutes at the most.
690
01:27:12,693 --> 01:27:13,819
I’m listening.
691
01:27:15,154 --> 01:27:19,158
My name is Kornyev.
I am the inspecting prosecutor...
692
01:27:19,325 --> 01:27:21,618
of the local prisons in Bryansk,
693
01:27:22,494 --> 01:27:23,995
where I have discovered
694
01:27:24,996 --> 01:27:28,875
an infringement of socialist law
695
01:27:29,042 --> 01:27:30,919
by the local NKVD,
696
01:27:31,086 --> 01:27:34,715
regarding their conduct of cases
of counter-revolutionary crimes.
697
01:27:34,881 --> 01:27:39,052
The rules have been broken
regarding the detention of suspects.
698
01:27:43,515 --> 01:27:44,725
I see. Continue.
699
01:27:48,479 --> 01:27:52,065
I know for a fact
that a detainee was repeatedly beaten
700
01:27:52,233 --> 01:27:54,193
while under interrogation
701
01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:58,029
by the local branch of the NKVD.
702
01:27:59,490 --> 01:28:01,492
I believe that...
703
01:28:01,658 --> 01:28:03,202
such beatings,
704
01:28:03,910 --> 01:28:06,788
and other illegal methods
of investigation...
705
01:28:07,706 --> 01:28:10,501
are used systematically.
706
01:28:12,127 --> 01:28:14,671
The fact that political prisoners
707
01:28:14,838 --> 01:28:18,259
are deprived of the possibility
of addressing complaints
708
01:28:18,425 --> 01:28:22,346
to the appropriate authorities,
provides further evidence.
709
01:28:43,159 --> 01:28:46,995
This may be the only such statement
from the political wing of the prison
710
01:28:47,163 --> 01:28:51,292
that ever reached
the office of the district prosecutor.
711
01:29:11,562 --> 01:29:14,356
The material on which it is written,
and the 'ink'
712
01:29:14,523 --> 01:29:16,692
the prisoner used,
all this speaks volumes.
713
01:29:18,109 --> 01:29:20,987
BRYANSK
PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE
714
01:29:33,375 --> 01:29:38,088
Why inform me of these infringements
instead of your district prosecutor?
715
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:47,473
Because I have no confidence
that the local prosecutor’s office
716
01:29:47,639 --> 01:29:49,975
will intervene
with the local NKVD.
717
01:29:52,436 --> 01:29:54,521
Moreover, I fear that...
718
01:29:54,688 --> 01:29:58,900
the local prosecutor’s office would
not want, and indeed would not be able,
719
01:29:59,067 --> 01:30:02,112
to protect any of its own staff
who did intervene.
720
01:30:02,904 --> 01:30:04,823
When the NKVD
makes a wrongful arrest
721
01:30:04,990 --> 01:30:07,743
the issuing of sanctions
by the prosecutor’s office
722
01:30:07,909 --> 01:30:09,870
has long been an empty formality.
723
01:30:11,079 --> 01:30:16,543
So turning to my superior
would not only be pointless,
724
01:30:16,710 --> 01:30:18,044
but it would be...
725
01:30:18,212 --> 01:30:19,671
almost suicidal.
726
01:30:21,382 --> 01:30:23,049
And I decided to approach you,
727
01:30:23,217 --> 01:30:25,177
not as a professional,
728
01:30:25,344 --> 01:30:28,722
but as an honest Soviet citizen,
and a Party member.
729
01:30:34,395 --> 01:30:36,605
What is the aim,
730
01:30:36,772 --> 01:30:39,149
in your opinion,
731
01:30:39,316 --> 01:30:41,818
of these violations
732
01:30:41,985 --> 01:30:44,863
which you suspect are going on
in your district?
733
01:30:45,364 --> 01:30:46,448
Comrade Vyshinsky,
734
01:30:49,075 --> 01:30:51,870
I'm sure that a group
of counter-revolutionaries,
735
01:30:52,037 --> 01:30:53,872
posing as Stalinist Chekists,
736
01:30:54,039 --> 01:30:56,667
are active
in our district branch of the NKVD.
737
01:30:58,210 --> 01:31:01,547
They are using their position
to exterminate the best local people,
738
01:31:01,713 --> 01:31:04,007
accusing them of made-up crimes.
739
01:31:04,966 --> 01:31:09,180
They do this to undermine
the district administration
740
01:31:09,346 --> 01:31:12,599
and to discredit Soviet law
in the eyes of the masses.
741
01:31:12,766 --> 01:31:15,186
The leading workers of our area
742
01:31:15,352 --> 01:31:18,230
are confused and frightened
by these NKVD crooks.
743
01:31:18,397 --> 01:31:21,358
This affects the prosecutor’s office.
744
01:31:22,984 --> 01:31:24,570
It's even possible
745
01:31:25,196 --> 01:31:28,199
that some of them,
maybe against their will,
746
01:31:28,365 --> 01:31:30,992
are working under
direct orders from the NKVD.
747
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:32,411
This is highly likely,
748
01:31:32,578 --> 01:31:36,457
since everyone able to identify
the covert hostility of the NKVD
749
01:31:36,623 --> 01:31:39,251
has been arrested or exterminated.
750
01:31:40,586 --> 01:31:44,215
Devoted Party workers are replaced
with new incompetent people
751
01:31:44,381 --> 01:31:47,718
who carry out the orders
of those loyal to the NKVD.
752
01:31:47,884 --> 01:31:51,388
If any of them
guesses there's something fishy,
753
01:31:51,555 --> 01:31:53,224
they pretend not to notice.
754
01:31:53,390 --> 01:31:55,141
"Don’t touch us
and we won’t touch you".
755
01:31:55,309 --> 01:31:57,936
That's how the system works,
Comrade Vyshinsky
756
01:31:58,812 --> 01:32:02,733
Maybe there are some time-servers
whose silence has been bought
757
01:32:02,899 --> 01:32:06,862
by their unexpected promotion,
usually beyond their abilities.
758
01:32:07,028 --> 01:32:09,573
I could follow their example,
Comrade Vyshinsky.
759
01:32:10,324 --> 01:32:12,618
But my conscience
as a Soviet citizen,
760
01:32:12,784 --> 01:32:15,454
a Party member
and a member of the Soviet judiciary
761
01:32:15,621 --> 01:32:16,997
stops me from doing this.
762
01:32:18,665 --> 01:32:21,042
I cannot calmly watch these crimes
being committed
763
01:32:21,210 --> 01:32:23,295
continually and on a mass scale.
764
01:32:24,421 --> 01:32:28,217
The highest prosecuting authorities
must put a stop to them.
765
01:32:29,092 --> 01:32:33,472
I think this highly destructive process
must be halted immediately.
766
01:32:39,811 --> 01:32:45,108
You want the Chief Prosecutor’s office
to begin an urgent investigation
767
01:32:46,067 --> 01:32:50,781
into the supposed counter-revolutionary
acts of the NKVD in your district?
768
01:32:50,947 --> 01:32:52,824
Have I understood you correctly?
769
01:32:58,580 --> 01:33:00,832
Absolutely correctly,
Comrade Vyshinsky!
770
01:33:05,671 --> 01:33:07,548
In principle
this would be possible,
771
01:33:07,714 --> 01:33:11,843
if it was a matter of
a normal government department.
772
01:33:12,636 --> 01:33:16,515
But the NKVD, at this moment,
773
01:33:16,682 --> 01:33:20,602
enjoys almost complete autonomy.
774
01:33:21,603 --> 01:33:26,483
Even the Chief Prosecutor’s office
cannot raise a case against...
775
01:33:26,650 --> 01:33:30,904
even an individual NKVD employee,
776
01:33:31,071 --> 01:33:33,949
without the consent
of the NKVD leadership.
777
01:33:36,827 --> 01:33:40,456
If there were strong documentary proof
778
01:33:40,622 --> 01:33:44,501
of law-breaking in the NKVD,
779
01:33:45,085 --> 01:33:48,922
then their leaders
would doubtless agree
780
01:33:49,089 --> 01:33:53,009
to allow a case
against those wrongdoers.
781
01:33:54,470 --> 01:33:55,721
Comrade...
782
01:33:56,096 --> 01:33:56,930
Kornyev?
783
01:33:58,557 --> 01:34:00,726
...said that he himself
784
01:34:00,892 --> 01:34:04,355
saw torture marks
on the body of a particular prisoner.
785
01:34:05,397 --> 01:34:08,066
Can you back up your observation
786
01:34:08,234 --> 01:34:10,777
with medical evidence?
787
01:34:13,614 --> 01:34:18,410
It’s the same prisoner who wrote
to our local office in his own blood.
788
01:34:20,078 --> 01:34:21,330
He's an old Bolshevik,
789
01:34:21,497 --> 01:34:23,707
he was a leading Party worker.
790
01:34:25,417 --> 01:34:28,337
I'd like to explain
to the Comrade Prosecutor.
791
01:34:29,255 --> 01:34:32,924
I could only get access
to the prisoner
792
01:34:33,091 --> 01:34:36,220
after insisting that
the governor allow a meeting.
793
01:34:37,095 --> 01:34:39,223
And this governor
would find excuses
794
01:34:39,390 --> 01:34:43,101
to delay the appointment
of a medical commission,
795
01:34:43,269 --> 01:34:46,230
until he has had time
to put me in prison too.
796
01:34:47,231 --> 01:34:50,192
I am sure that he
and his senior staff
797
01:34:50,359 --> 01:34:54,155
are in a plot with the criminal bosses
of the local NKVD.
798
01:34:55,697 --> 01:35:01,537
So I decided to rely on the Prosecutor
General's personal trust in my report.
799
01:35:04,998 --> 01:35:06,792
And frankly speaking,
800
01:35:07,251 --> 01:35:11,380
I didn’t know that even a
secret investigation of a NKVD employee
801
01:35:11,838 --> 01:35:14,049
requires documentary evidence.
802
01:35:14,675 --> 01:35:15,509
Oh, yes,
803
01:35:18,470 --> 01:35:20,806
for a lawyer, it is imprudent.
804
01:35:22,516 --> 01:35:24,643
But the situation can be remedied.
805
01:35:25,060 --> 01:35:26,312
Go back
806
01:35:26,478 --> 01:35:29,940
and send us medical evidence
about the prisoner who was subjected,
807
01:35:30,106 --> 01:35:33,610
as you assert,
to illegal methods of interrogation.
808
01:35:34,069 --> 01:35:38,657
I promise that an investigation
of this case
809
01:35:39,158 --> 01:35:40,909
will start immediately.
810
01:35:46,290 --> 01:35:47,499
But...
811
01:35:49,626 --> 01:35:51,503
if I go back empty-handed,
812
01:35:51,670 --> 01:35:55,466
I will immediately be sacked
813
01:35:55,632 --> 01:35:56,925
and arrested.
814
01:35:58,552 --> 01:36:00,762
I'm sure the counter-revolutionaries
815
01:36:00,929 --> 01:36:04,475
won't let anyone who knows
about their crimes go free.
816
01:36:25,579 --> 01:36:29,166
Provide Comrade Kornyev
with confirmation that he met me.
817
01:36:29,833 --> 01:36:33,670
Address it to his District Prosecutor.
818
01:36:34,671 --> 01:36:38,175
That will allow you
to conduct your investigations
819
01:36:38,342 --> 01:36:40,677
without risk
to your own safety.
820
01:36:43,264 --> 01:36:45,891
And provide Comrade Kornyev
821
01:36:46,057 --> 01:36:50,145
with a ticket for his return journey
from our reserved allocation.
822
01:36:51,355 --> 01:36:55,817
Put down a short but detailed precis
of what was said in our meeting.
823
01:36:55,984 --> 01:36:59,988
Send it with the medical certificate.
824
01:37:01,157 --> 01:37:03,074
And enclose this as well.
825
01:37:03,242 --> 01:37:07,704
It will serve as auxiliary evidence.
826
01:37:42,323 --> 01:37:43,615
How did it go?
827
01:37:43,782 --> 01:37:44,783
Not now.
828
01:38:17,691 --> 01:38:18,817
Get in.
829
01:38:51,433 --> 01:38:52,893
You're in here.
830
01:38:57,773 --> 01:38:58,649
Good evening.
831
01:38:58,815 --> 01:38:59,775
Hello.
832
01:39:01,860 --> 01:39:03,237
Which seat are you in?
833
01:39:05,447 --> 01:39:06,782
Number 5.
834
01:39:08,992 --> 01:39:10,202
Let's make space.
835
01:39:10,369 --> 01:39:12,329
Please sit down.
836
01:39:12,496 --> 01:39:14,623
- You can leave that here.
- No.
837
01:39:16,124 --> 01:39:17,959
I'll put this here...
838
01:39:19,586 --> 01:39:21,213
And this will go there.
839
01:39:24,508 --> 01:39:25,592
And this...
840
01:39:52,869 --> 01:39:54,288
Ah, we're off!
841
01:40:03,755 --> 01:40:04,756
From Moscow?
842
01:40:05,507 --> 01:40:06,342
Me? No.
843
01:40:06,508 --> 01:40:07,676
Where are you from?
844
01:40:08,093 --> 01:40:08,927
Bryansk.
845
01:40:09,094 --> 01:40:10,554
A student, are you?
846
01:40:11,180 --> 01:40:13,432
I was.
I’ve got a job now.
847
01:40:14,808 --> 01:40:15,934
What do you do?
848
01:40:16,560 --> 01:40:17,394
I’m a lawyer,
849
01:40:17,561 --> 01:40:19,646
member of
the defence lawyers' college.
850
01:40:19,813 --> 01:40:21,732
Now I’m an inspecting prosecutor.
851
01:40:22,274 --> 01:40:23,525
What does that mean?
852
01:40:27,779 --> 01:40:29,615
I deal with citizens' complaints.
853
01:40:30,949 --> 01:40:34,286
I make sure everything's done legally.
854
01:40:34,995 --> 01:40:36,121
Well, well.
855
01:40:40,959 --> 01:40:43,128
That’s a fine profession, Comrade.
856
01:40:48,175 --> 01:40:49,218
An essential one.
857
01:40:51,345 --> 01:40:52,513
Why were you in Moscow?
858
01:40:53,680 --> 01:40:54,931
You got a girl there?
859
01:40:55,641 --> 01:40:56,892
Not at all.
860
01:40:57,058 --> 01:40:59,603
So why were you there,
if it's not a secret?
861
01:41:00,312 --> 01:41:02,606
Business at the prosecutor's office.
862
01:41:04,275 --> 01:41:06,485
In Moscow?
Don't you have one in Bryansk?
863
01:41:08,612 --> 01:41:11,782
I went to meet the Prosecutor General.
864
01:41:12,491 --> 01:41:13,742
Vyshinsky?
865
01:41:16,412 --> 01:41:17,246
Yes.
866
01:41:18,289 --> 01:41:21,292
Petya, he's so young
and yet he's met the Prosecutor General!
867
01:41:24,961 --> 01:41:27,881
Oh, we haven't introduced ourselves:
Petya.
868
01:41:28,048 --> 01:41:29,716
Alexander.
A pleasure to meet you.
869
01:41:29,883 --> 01:41:31,343
- This is Vasya.
- Vasily.
870
01:41:31,510 --> 01:41:32,803
A pleasure to meet you.
871
01:41:38,392 --> 01:41:40,269
Just a minute.
872
01:41:44,315 --> 01:41:46,107
Bring us some glasses.
873
01:41:46,983 --> 01:41:48,819
Oh, not for me.
874
01:41:48,985 --> 01:41:49,820
Not for you?
875
01:41:49,986 --> 01:41:52,948
It'd be a sin
not to drink a toast to Soviet law.
876
01:42:14,345 --> 01:42:15,512
Thank you.
877
01:42:18,932 --> 01:42:20,559
Is there a guitar around?
878
01:42:21,435 --> 01:42:22,853
I can bring sugar.
879
01:42:24,855 --> 01:42:26,482
What a joker!
880
01:42:32,488 --> 01:42:33,489
Now,
881
01:42:36,700 --> 01:42:38,160
a toast to 'good order'!
882
01:42:39,661 --> 01:42:40,871
To good order!
883
01:42:48,712 --> 01:42:51,632
- Sasha, have some snacks!
- Thank you.
884
01:42:59,848 --> 01:43:01,141
And what do you do?
885
01:43:05,020 --> 01:43:06,480
We're liquidators.
886
01:43:14,988 --> 01:43:15,947
We’re engineers.
887
01:43:16,114 --> 01:43:18,367
From the Planning Institute
in Moscow.
888
01:43:19,701 --> 01:43:21,787
We plan factories,
industrial plants,
889
01:43:21,953 --> 01:43:23,622
the future, in a word.
890
01:43:24,206 --> 01:43:25,624
You're architects.
891
01:43:25,791 --> 01:43:28,710
Yes, we can do that too.
892
01:43:28,877 --> 01:43:32,088
We're reconstructing a factory
in Bryansk, a complex project.
893
01:43:32,256 --> 01:43:33,549
Machine tooling?
894
01:43:33,715 --> 01:43:36,468
- It's the Red Profintern.
- But the technology's imported.
895
01:43:36,635 --> 01:43:40,222
There are all sorts of hitches, misunderstandings.
896
01:43:40,389 --> 01:43:42,683
A month ago they installed a line...
897
01:43:43,475 --> 01:43:47,396
Something went wrong just before
it was supposed to start production.
898
01:43:47,563 --> 01:43:49,940
So we're off to sort it out.
899
01:43:51,317 --> 01:43:54,278
Maybe human error,
maybe sabotage.
900
01:43:56,655 --> 01:43:58,824
Well, you'd know better than us.
901
01:43:58,990 --> 01:44:02,244
Yes, sometimes you don't know
if it's a mistake or sabotage.
902
01:44:02,411 --> 01:44:04,538
Looks like a normal engineer.
903
01:44:04,705 --> 01:44:06,373
Wife, kids, job.
904
01:44:06,540 --> 01:44:09,918
Looks like everything's fine,
and blow me down, he's a saboteur.
905
01:44:10,085 --> 01:44:13,547
You could scarcely believe it,
but they themselves confess.
906
01:44:15,131 --> 01:44:16,800
- It's very scary.
- Yes.
907
01:44:21,513 --> 01:44:24,015
You know yourself,
the times we're living in.
908
01:44:28,645 --> 01:44:29,813
You must...
909
01:44:30,731 --> 01:44:32,483
have to deal with enemies.
910
01:44:32,649 --> 01:44:35,361
But how to know
if they're an enemy or not?
911
01:44:39,114 --> 01:44:40,449
There are procedures.
912
01:44:40,616 --> 01:44:44,370
If a crime has been committed,
an investigation is held.
913
01:44:45,412 --> 01:44:46,747
That's after the event.
914
01:44:46,913 --> 01:44:48,874
But if no crime has happened yet,
915
01:44:49,040 --> 01:44:51,335
but the enemy is already present,
what then?
916
01:44:53,754 --> 01:44:58,049
Then, according to Roman law,
there's a presumption of innocence.
917
01:44:59,676 --> 01:45:01,803
Then there's sabotage.
Then what?
918
01:45:06,392 --> 01:45:10,229
You can't sentence a person
before a crime has been committed.
919
01:45:11,104 --> 01:45:13,732
So what do you do?
Wait till a crime's committed?
920
01:45:18,487 --> 01:45:20,197
I understand your question...
921
01:45:20,364 --> 01:45:21,532
Comrade Prosecutor,
922
01:45:21,698 --> 01:45:22,741
Sasha,
923
01:45:24,117 --> 01:45:25,661
we must be vigilant,
924
01:45:25,827 --> 01:45:28,455
we mustn't drop
925
01:45:29,080 --> 01:45:31,250
the punishing sword of Soviet law.
926
01:45:31,417 --> 01:45:32,876
But we don't punish, we...
927
01:45:34,211 --> 01:45:35,086
investigate.
928
01:45:35,254 --> 01:45:37,506
And if there are grounds,
the courts punish.
929
01:45:39,341 --> 01:45:42,010
- So that's it, 'we investigate'.
- Very fair.
930
01:45:42,469 --> 01:45:43,679
To vigilance!
931
01:45:52,604 --> 01:45:53,897
Come on, eat up!
932
01:45:54,440 --> 01:45:55,357
Thank you.
933
01:45:55,524 --> 01:45:57,234
Somebody wanted a guitar?
934
01:45:57,401 --> 01:46:00,612
Thank you, dear host.
Now this is something else!
935
01:46:01,447 --> 01:46:02,614
But I need...
936
01:46:05,451 --> 01:46:06,743
- Here.
- Thank you.
937
01:46:08,537 --> 01:46:09,580
Let's go.
938
01:46:14,626 --> 01:46:15,752
Our song.
939
01:46:19,965 --> 01:46:23,927
The morning greets us with coolness
940
01:46:24,094 --> 01:46:26,972
The river greets us with a breeze
941
01:46:27,598 --> 01:46:30,517
Curly-head, why aren't you pleased
942
01:46:30,976 --> 01:46:34,062
With the merry song
of the factory siren?
943
01:46:34,230 --> 01:46:36,857
Don’t sleep, wake up, Curly-head!
944
01:46:37,649 --> 01:46:40,777
They're hammering in the workshops
945
01:46:40,944 --> 01:46:44,698
The country rises in glory
946
01:46:44,865 --> 01:46:47,493
To greet the new day
947
01:46:54,750 --> 01:46:57,503
The brigade will meet us with tasks
948
01:46:58,170 --> 01:47:01,382
And you will smile at your pals
949
01:47:01,798 --> 01:47:04,510
With whom you share care and labour
950
01:47:04,676 --> 01:47:07,596
And life and the counterplan
951
01:47:08,054 --> 01:47:11,183
Beyond the Narva outpost
952
01:47:11,350 --> 01:47:14,353
In thunder and in fire
953
01:47:14,520 --> 01:47:17,689
The country rises in glory
954
01:47:17,856 --> 01:47:20,776
To greet the new day
955
01:47:25,156 --> 01:47:27,324
To greet the new day
956
01:47:29,826 --> 01:47:30,994
Bam!
957
01:47:36,667 --> 01:47:40,212
To the farthest corner
958
01:47:40,671 --> 01:47:43,465
Our youth will go
959
01:47:43,632 --> 01:47:45,967
Until a second youthful band
960
01:47:46,718 --> 01:47:49,471
Comes to meet you
961
01:47:50,013 --> 01:47:53,350
And a horde will spring into life
962
01:47:53,517 --> 01:47:56,645
To take their fathers' places
963
01:47:56,812 --> 01:48:00,023
The country rises in glory
964
01:48:00,191 --> 01:48:03,235
To greet the new day
965
01:48:11,660 --> 01:48:14,830
Declare your truth
966
01:48:15,664 --> 01:48:18,750
With a splendid speech
967
01:48:18,917 --> 01:48:22,254
We go out to meet life
968
01:48:22,671 --> 01:48:26,049
To encounter labour and love!
969
01:48:26,217 --> 01:48:29,678
Is it a sin to love, Curly-head?
970
01:48:29,845 --> 01:48:32,639
When with sounds of ringing
971
01:48:33,265 --> 01:48:36,477
The country rises in glory
972
01:48:36,643 --> 01:48:39,145
To greet the new day
973
01:48:39,313 --> 01:48:40,146
Repeat!
974
01:48:40,314 --> 01:48:43,317
The country rises in glory
975
01:48:43,484 --> 01:48:46,237
To greet the new day
976
01:49:38,455 --> 01:49:41,458
Wake up, Comrade lawyer!
We’ll be there in half an hour.
977
01:49:50,217 --> 01:49:51,343
Comrade Ivanov?
978
01:49:51,510 --> 01:49:52,886
Yes. Comrade Petrov?
979
01:49:54,680 --> 01:49:56,973
- Are you from the management?
- Exactly.
980
01:49:57,140 --> 01:49:58,225
Is he with you?
981
01:49:58,392 --> 01:49:59,601
Comrade Kornyev.
982
01:49:59,768 --> 01:50:00,686
Good day.
983
01:50:02,688 --> 01:50:04,022
You're going by car?
984
01:50:04,190 --> 01:50:06,066
Comrade, could you give me a lift?
985
01:50:06,233 --> 01:50:07,776
Shall we take him, Vasya?
986
01:50:08,610 --> 01:50:09,695
Let's go.
987
01:50:09,861 --> 01:50:11,071
Thank you.
988
01:51:09,296 --> 01:51:11,798
You've got girls in this town of yours, right?
989
01:51:13,759 --> 01:51:14,593
Obviously.
990
01:51:14,760 --> 01:51:16,094
Good-looking ones?
991
01:51:19,014 --> 01:51:20,891
Yes, some good-looking ones, too.
992
01:51:27,898 --> 01:51:29,441
Do they give it away easily?
993
01:51:32,903 --> 01:51:33,820
Give what away?
994
01:51:38,116 --> 01:51:41,328
What do you mean "give what away"?
Are you a blushing bride?
995
01:51:51,547 --> 01:51:52,756
I'm unmarried.
996
01:51:53,424 --> 01:51:54,758
Oh-ho, I see.
997
01:51:57,010 --> 01:51:59,137
And you've never tried it?
Not even once?
998
01:51:59,305 --> 01:52:00,681
What are you talking about?
999
01:52:00,847 --> 01:52:02,849
No need to be shy.
You're among friends here.
1000
01:52:03,016 --> 01:52:04,560
He won't tell anyone.
1001
01:52:05,269 --> 01:52:06,478
Come on, spit it out.
1002
01:52:08,189 --> 01:52:09,690
Are you still a virgin?
1003
01:52:19,074 --> 01:52:20,784
Wait, we've taken a wrong turning.
1004
01:52:20,951 --> 01:52:23,745
I'm not dropping you anywhere,
until you tell all.
1005
01:52:25,414 --> 01:52:26,790
Come on, spit it out.
1006
01:52:27,916 --> 01:52:30,419
We're all dying to know,
aren't we, Vasya?
1007
01:52:32,713 --> 01:52:33,922
Where are we going?
1008
01:52:35,257 --> 01:52:36,550
We're taking you...
1009
01:52:37,884 --> 01:52:39,010
to be investigated.
1010
01:52:39,595 --> 01:52:41,096
"If there are grounds".
1011
01:52:54,985 --> 01:52:55,861
Open the door.
1012
01:52:56,027 --> 01:52:57,529
Take it easy, Kornyev.
1013
01:53:05,120 --> 01:53:06,455
You're under arrest.