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 Lubyanka Square - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stalin ordered all the historic Lubyanka churches to be demolished in order to highlight the dominant position of the NKVD headquarters.
Lubyanka Square (Russian: Лубянская площадь) in Moscow is not far from Red Square.
Lubyanka Square is best known for Alexey Shchusev's large yellow brick building which has been the headquarters of the KGB in its various incarnations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lubyanka_Square   (225 words)

  
 CBC News - Reports from Abroad: Nick Spicer
For Russians over the age of 30, the name Lubyanka evokes secret police interrogations, torture and summary executions in the maze of underground jail cells on the square.
But for the KGB officers who populated this part of town before the end of communism, Lubyanka was a nice neighbourhood, with all the amenities needed to stay loyal.
In 1991, the toppling of the statue in Lubyanka Square, before Western TV cameras, became one of the iconic images of the fall of communism around the world.
www.cbc.ca /news/reportsfromabroad/spicer/20060926.html   (934 words)

  
 BBC News | Europe | Fire strikes Lubyanka
Dozens of fire engines and ambulances swarmed around the Federal Security Service (FSB) building on Lubyanka Square after the fire was reported at 0215 local time (2315 GMT).
The Lubyanka building has been the headquarters of the Soviet and then the Russian security services for around 80 years.
As the headquarters of the Soviet secret police, the KGB, the Lubyanka was the scene of tortures and executions - and it is still regarded as a symbol of Soviet-era repression.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/515110.stm   (235 words)

  
 KGB Lubyanka Headquarters - Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies
The main yellow building, which is often shown on television, predates the Revolution and was taken over by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
Containing the Lubyanka prison, this building is now the headquarters of the Border Troops, and it also contains a single Federal Security Service (FSB) Directorate.
The new KGB Museum, which is open to the public, is housed in the Lubyanka building.
www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/russia/lubyanka.htm   (315 words)

  
 American Thinker Blog: Kerry's gaffe
"Lubyanka Square" is what the plaza is called today, taking its name from the from the infamous building where the Soviets headquartered their secret police agencies, from the Cheka to the KGB.
The "bowels" of the Lubyanka were in the basement of the building, where the torture and execution chambers were located———and not under the square itself.
To confuse Treblinka with Lubyanka is on the level of mixing up Auschwitz with Albany, and the senator should issue a retraction———and an apology.
www.americanthinker.com /comments.php?comments_id=785   (334 words)

  
 AxisofLogic/ United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I still shudder recalling Lubyanka’s underground cells, grim interrogation rooms, and execution cellars where tens of thousands were tortured and shot.
Prisoners taken in the dead of night to Lubyanka were systematically beaten for days with rubber hoses and clubs.
We have seen America’s president and vice president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, advocating some of the same interrogation techniques the KGB used at the Lubyanka.
www.axisoflogic.com /artman/publish/article_23069.shtml   (632 words)

  
 PAW- March 20, 1996
Indeed, even today, as those archives of the Terror still grudgingly divulge their secrets, it is only slowly becoming possible to learn exactly what happened to Bukharin during his last year of life.
His last fight against Stalin, who was represented in the prison and courtroom by brutal policemen and corrupt prosecutors, was enormously complex and, of course, terribly uneven.
Other important materials are mysteriously missing-misplaced or "burned." They include the first volume of Bukharin's study of modern civilization, completed before his arrest and seized during the search of his Kremlin apartment, and an invaluable filmed record of the trial shot by NKVD cameramen.
www.princeton.edu /paw/archive_old/PAW95-96/12_9596/0320feat2.html   (2037 words)

  
 About Two for the Devil | Abbeville Press
It was busier than before and, understandably, more densely populated, for the Lubyanka was the secret police prison, the very home of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police.
Since the Lubyanka represented a progressive revolution, fear, too, had progressed; it caused the secret police officers themselves to do strange, unexpected things within the sheltering walls where Grisha Shwartzman now sat, facing a prisoner.
Disoriented, he would inevitably lose his grip and be flung off, to crash against stable objects such as the prison bars of the Lubyanka itself.
www.abbeville.com /Products/Excerpt/0789203979Excerpt.htm   (2332 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Sweden's WWII hero 'executed'
Mr Wallenberg was last seen in January 1945 in Budapest, after being summoned to the headquarters of the Soviet army which had seized the city.
Then, 12 years after his disappearance, it admitted that he was taken to Moscow's notorious KGB headquarters, the Lubyanka, where he was said to have died of a heart attack 1947.
"Now we do not doubt that he was executed in the Lubyanka and we are appealing to the military prosecutor's office for a thorough inquiry into the circumstances," Mr Yakovlev said.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1044744.stm   (501 words)

  
 Historical Gallery
Irina Flige of the Memorial human rights society said in a phone interview from St. Petersburg yesterday that 30,000 of those murdered in the great purges of the 1930s might be buried at an artillery test range about 20 miles north of that city.
Opponents of the move to restore the statue, including several members of Russia's parliament, the Duma, staged an impromptu march on Lubyanka Square yesterday and gathered more than 300 signatures on a hastily drafted petition.
At a meeting of the city's construction committee Friday, Luzhkov unexpectedly announced that the Dzerzhinsky statue was "an excellent monument" and "the highlight" of Lubyanka Square, Interfax reported.
www.artukraine.com /historical/symb_terr.htm   (1358 words)

  
 Moscow Superheros : Session 1.5 Notes
Ignoring the message that supervillains are attacking the Lubyanka, Molinya, Napalm and General Winter arrive at the Olympic Penta Hotel.
At the Lubyanka, Mirov, now in the form of a small fly, comes upon a scene as per the archives building.
Leaning against the wall of the ramp to the Lubyanka car park, Molinya reads some of the papers she captured and finds that they are old NKVD/KGB records from the area North of Moscow (from Moscow to St. Petersberg and Archangel).
www.wolfram.demon.co.uk /rp_ew_mh_no_5.html   (2432 words)

  
 Газета.Ru - Silly season gets under way in State Duma
On Friday the deputies refused to back the liberal Union of Rightist Forces (SPS) in its criticism of the Moscow government’s desire to return the monument to Lubyanka Square, where, throughout the years of Soviet rule, the ominous figure of the heroic ‘Chekist’ loomed in front of the KGB’s headquarters.
The lawmakers also rejected a proposal from LDPR deputy Alexei Mitrofanov who suggested that a monument to Yuri Andropov be erected on the pedestal, vacant since the Dzerzhinsky monument was torn down in the early 90s.
Eventually the State Duma vice-speaker Lyubov Sliska summed up the morning squabble saying: ''It seems the Duma has opened a theatre season.'' And her words proved to be accurate as the discussion of bills on Friday proceeded somewhat merrily.
www.gazeta.ru /2002/10/01/Sillyseasong.shtml   (974 words)

  
 Kerry mistakenly referenced "Treblinka Square"
Lubyanka was actually the jail inside the KGB building which was in Dzerzhinsky Square in Moscow.
Lubyanka was the basement where the condemned from the purge trials were exected.
Of course, the notorious square in Moscow was alternately known as "Dzerzhinsky Square" and "Lubyanka Square." The prison was "Lubyanka Prison".
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1232313/posts   (1726 words)

  
 Russia, Chechnya, Human Rights
Lubyanka is not only the FSB [Federal Security Service].
And in fact, in addition the institute received nine telephone numbers from the police switchboard to use free of charge to support large-scale national economic activity.
After director Shchukin had been fired, the economic administration of the Ministry suddenly recalled the lease payment for the Lubyanka office.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/5517-10.cfm   (2578 words)

  
 The New Yorker : talk : content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ever since, Lubyanka Square has been changing; the shabby old Soviet food store behind the K.G.B.'s main building has become a posh supermarket, part of a chain called the Seventh Continent—a sinister, though unconscious, reminder of the Gulag Archipelago.
in Lubyanka was re-created upon the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and by the zeal of the Federal Security Service." Curious.
The Russian Orthodox Church and the state security service do not appear to be a good match, given that tens of thousands of bishops, priests, monks, and nuns were imprisoned and executed under Lenin and Stalin.
www.newyorker.com /talk/content/?020401ta_talk_lipman   (354 words)

  
 Spitting on International Law by Eric Margolis
I still shudder recalling Lubyanka’s underground cells, grim interrogation rooms, and even deeper underground execution cellars where tens of thousands were tortured and shot.
We have seen America’s president and vice president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, advocating exactly the same tortures techniques KGB used at the Lubyanka.
They claimed beating, freezing, sleep deprivation, and drowning were necessary to prevent terrorist attacks, calling them by the euphemism, “tough interrogation.” Stalin made the same arguments, but did not stoop to euphemisms.
www.lewrockwell.com /margolis/margolis51.html   (1082 words)

  
 Mistress Lubyanka - learn all you need to know before worshipping this sensual goddess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I am Mistress Lubyanka, a Russian lifestyle dominatrix who absolutely adores having slaves under my control, to use and abuse for my pleasure and gratification.
For those who don't know, Lubyanka was the infamous KGB headquarters in Moscow where enemies of the Soviet state were interrogated and tortured.
No part of this website or its contents may be reproduced or distributed by any means whatsoever without the express written consent of the owner.
www.lubyanka.co.uk /about.htm   (523 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lubyanka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Lubyanka" at HighBeam.
"Every member of this family would not have survived if it wasn't for kindness" says Janek Kancewicz, 86, a polish jew who survived World War II in Moscow's notorious Lubyanka prison and Siberia.
No Lubyanka Return For NKVD Founder, THE MOSCOW TIMES
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Lubyanka   (202 words)

  
 News Releases - SWC New Design Test
Lovers of freedom the world over cheered when the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky was removed from Lubyanka Square 11 years ago, said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
It was a defining moment symbolizing the demise of a system that brutally and needlessly destroyed tens of millions of lives during the Soviet era.
That fact, Cooper continued, along with the chilling history that Lubyanka prison harbors, should inspire the city fathers of Moscow to place a towering statue of Andrei Sakharov on Russias highest pedestal instead of someone whose only positive claim to fame was that he kept the trains running on time.
www.wiesenthal.com /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bhKRI6PDInE&b=296323&ct=350777   (285 words)

  
 CNN.com - Wallenberg 'executed' by Soviets - November 27, 2000
MOSCOW, Russia -- World War II diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews from the gas chambers, was shot by the Soviets in Lubyanka rather than having died of a heart attack, a committee says.
The head of a Russian committee on rehabilitating victims of Soviet repression was quoted on Monday as saying he was sure Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg had been executed in the notorious Lubyanka prison.
In 1957 the Soviets publicised a doctor's note said to be from 1947 to the effect that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack that year at the age of 34 in the Lubyanka headquarters of the NKVD secret police.
edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/scandinavia/11/27/russia.wallenberg   (526 words)

  
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The dingy cellars were often used for interrogation/torture purposes and thousands perished there, among them not only war prisoners, including the anti-Nazi resistance of various countries and Allies who had “disappeared,” but also local artists and doctors.
When victims perished in the Lubyanka, their heart was quickly cut out and sent to medical students for study.
The guards were intolerant, the interrogators brutal, and if they so much as suspected there was something more to be gotten from a semi-broken spirit, the focus of their “investigation” was all but doomed.
www.lulu.com /items/volume_4/166000/166291/4/preview/SwordoftheTurul_3_Excerpts.doc   (1269 words)

  
 Lubyanka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Now a little slice of Ulitsa Miklukho-Maklaya has moved to the center with last month's opening of Al Andaluz on Ulitsa Bolshaya Lubyanka.
Lubyanka -- an informal reference to the former headquarters of KGB, at Lubyanka Square, Moscow.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/l/lu/lubyanka.html   (94 words)

  
 London Mistress Lubyanka, a sensual London dominatrix from Russia now based in Croydon, Surrey, UK (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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No part of this website or its contents may be reproduced or distributed by any means whatsoever without the written consent of the owner.
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 The Pioneer > Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
What militates against the Netaji documents, if any are actually stored within Lubyanka, is the fact that its contents threaten to undo the Russian idea of their World War II past.
Talk to any Russian historian and he will be surprised to learn that the secret diplomatic ties maintained between Stalin and Emperor Hirohito between 1941 and 1945 are on the verge of becoming public knowledge through the Kato Kaju route.
The Kato Kaju documents, are by Kulesnikov's indication, in Lubyanka.
www.dailypioneer.com /displayit1.asp?pathit=/archives2/oct205/front_page/story1.txt   (583 words)

  
 Article
For much of the Communist era, the forbidding walls of KGB headquarters cast a sinister pall across the Soviet Union.
But six years into the presidency of Vladimir Putin, himself a former KGB officer, much of the democratic progress that Russia made in the early post-Soviet years has evaporated.
Russians scurrying through the winter cold today could be forgiven for casting an apprehensive glance at the Lubyanka's grim façade, behind which lies the nerve centre of the KGB's successor, the Federal Security Service or FSB.
www.rantburg.com /poparticle.php?ID=172827&D=2006-11-22&HC=4   (809 words)

  
 ex-KGB headquarters/Lubyanka- Moscow, Russia - VirtualTourist.com
I did not tour the Lubyanka, but I did tour the KGB musuem.
Located on Lubyanka Square, the former KGB headquarters were long a source of fear for Soviet citizens.
The upper floors are KGB offices, but the ground floors are used for conferences and a clubroom for retired KGB offices.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Russia/Gorod_Moskva/Moscow-592480/Things_To_Do-Moscow-ex_KGB_headquartersLubyanka-R-3.html   (826 words)

  
 Doug Bandow on Felix Dzerzhinsky on National Review Online
While I sat there contemplating Lubyanka's hideous history a middle-aged Russian pulled up in a Volkswagon Golf, parked, set his car alarm, and scurried into a shop around the corner.
But of course, what is most important is "what has changed behind Lubyanka's walls," he adds, and there the record is more mixed.
So in August 1991 all of the traditional power centers, the military, Communist Party, and KGB, joined to create the "Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR" in a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, then vacationing in the Crimea.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-bandow092402.asp   (1683 words)

  
 Terror-99
The New-York-based publishing house GRANI has just published in Russian a book by Lt.-Col. Alexander Litvinenko, who used to work for Russia's Federal Security Service (Russian acronym FSB) but is now residing in Great Britain.
Each interview is an argument against the Lubyanka.
However, Litvinenko does not portray his former place of employment only in fl colors, he presents the FSB as an intricate and dubious structure.
eng.terror99.ru /publications/085.htm   (721 words)

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