We Have Ways of Making You Talk

In the Soviet Union, senior officers were looked after and kept alive while ordinary soldiers were worked to death. The first line of interrogation was the substance department of the NKVD. I don't think that there was extreme torture being applied in some of those cases unless it was, you know, being beaten up by ordinary soldiers rather than NKVD. And interestingly, one of the chief things they were wanting to know was what was the effect of RAF bombing on their families at home in Germany. This was something which Stalin wanted to know very, very carefully, especially before he saw Churchill. But let's go back to Russia and then we'll come on to the whole question of the reactions. It