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unusual facts about Lubyanka


Moscow Trials

All the defendants were sentenced to death and were subsequently shot in the cellars of Lubyanka prison in Moscow


Krāslava

Monsignor Konstantin BudkevichRoman Catholic priest executed in the Lubyanka Prison on Easter Sunday 1923.

Vyacheslav Menzhinsky

Fluent in over ten languages (including Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Persian, the last one learned especially in order to read works by Omar Khayyám), Menzhinsky was the second and last member of the Polish nobility among the Lubyanka's chiefs.


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