SOVIET PRISONS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 15

SOVIET PRISONS.

TORTUIIE AND ft&TIL' (t'UXTSB TtMB :< ClllCTliO MttOBAPH—COftBIGST.)HtLSt^CFOlt& ; . ilarcli 3. A btnrtlihg pctsorial riari ; iitive of his escape from an O.GL#.ty. (Sbviet Political Police) prison at iugtian Is made by a peasant named Juyo Marktiff. lie totlS arltiStfed by the OtG.Pilt, irri&27 dnd esbat>ed last it&nudry. lid dfccHbes in detaH the diiljelifetablo conditions existing in ilia prlsohs where he was variously coilllned) at Leningrad) Popvff lslaiid, Sbcoletski Island,, and iirtiinl. The prinopleis iVfcro pfltked like,, herfingSi They were ordered to lie oh llio right side- and, were unable to turn to undresa. The barracks were swarriiiiig with vermin. i J. he prisoners rose at three in the tabrnihg were chained ih pairs ' dnd Set tb drag lieaVy logs tlirOligh the Show lor upward of tWo in ilea. Sbords who saiijc to -the. athaueted KiekStl by the giijtrds., The bread issued rot liirib (ldyS did riot lagfc for fbiiT. Typhoid fetter spread wholesale, "and eVfery .hiofiiitife fliatlv tofeie fbiihd detitli lii the hfeiffht bf -frini&r thefe iteiii feO tfi ICKJ deaths dally. . . The bodies were dragged By tHe hair jicrdsrf the floor, aiid pflld inth & d}>mh holding fivdi Thby than tarried to & ahd iiito ' ; an drten gMro and Covered -frith snow. 'Jrao coffin was then l'ethroed tot more bodies. . . , When the enow melted the bodies toeb to the faUrftuki of th# wate*f s *lnd' stones were thrown oh ,thfem .to ■them ,ta the bottom. Wheitthe grave *BB ftill it was fcovered with A thih layer of -s' »' Markoff finally describes at* A.nser Mafia, ■ridj&'e • practically nokrid . priadberrfitferfe forced in ih© snoW ana.- SO dfegtees or frost. On one occasion 42 White officers w&rfe shot in a heap. ' *- The prisoners were forced to git fot hqurs in their oix_ high benches. &Mhlr,.4rid f Wtftlohlesß/ Those disobeying were plAced iti Straitjackets and. thrown, into, a cold moist cell, from' irhi'ch nona otnerged olive.'; _\ l -