In former times, it was believed that the confession of the accused to having committed a crime was the final and irrefutable confirmation of his guilt (“the queen of evidence”). The naive and crude psychology of judges and legislators did not take into account the possibility that a suspect might have an interest in deliberately falsely incriminating himself. Therefore, they sought “recognition” - at any cost, by any means, torture, mental and physical torment. This created a direct and acute interest in the soul of the suspect: to incriminate himself as quickly as possible - to confess to anything, if only the torment would stop, and, having achieved a confession, they celebrated and punished.
In 1498, the book “The Hammer of the Witches” appeared in Cologne, written by two Catholic inquisitors, Institor and Sprenger, in which, on the basis of the Old Testament and papal bulls, the existence of witches and the legality of their extermination was proved; and then the order of those inhuman tortures to which a woman must be subjected to force the desired confession was established. Popes Innocent VIII, Julius II and Adrian VI did their best to encourage these persecutions and processes. Throughout Europe there were denunciations and investigations; torture and executions took place everywhere; the property of those executed went to the judges. The victims died in fierce agony in tens and hundreds of thousands (in Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, England, etc.). This European barbarism continued after the Reformation, into the sixteenth, seventeenth and even the eighteenth centuries.
Today the Soviet Inquisition of the twentieth century tortures and executes in the same manner, although in the glory of a different, anti-religious doctrine. She also seeks "recognition" (even speaks blasphemously about a “frank confession”) and systematically resorts to torture (threats, beatings, torture by standing, torture by darkness, hunger, insomnia, staging a mock execution, torture by dogs, in a “vice”, on a “red chair”, "cone" and other methods specially invented by the Soviet "Academy of Sciences").
However, people from the NKVD do not at all believe in the evidentiary value of this “confession.” They don't need "proof" and they themselves mock them, shamelessly “sewing” to their victims such implausible, incongruous, defiantly senseless accusations, the absurdity of which they themselves understand very well. For them, the confession of the defendant is a prescribed formality.
The guilt of the arrested person is clear to them from the very beginning and consists in the fact that he is “inconvenient” party, political police or some individual party member. This is how we know those who were tortured and killed - for “hidden lack of sympathy”, for class “alienation”, for religiosity, for real intelligence of the pre-revolutionary level, for outstanding honesty (preventing others from stealing), for “standing in the way” of a nominated informer, for excessive awareness, for courageous words, for simple self-esteem, for possessing desirable clothes, an apartment or a library, for a lack of flattery towards the leaders, or simply for being a knowledgeable and talented engineer whom the Gulag wants to “trade” like a slave, in order to destroy it later, etc. The accusation never corresponds to the objective truth, nor to the deeds of the accused, nor to his testimony during interrogation. The accusation is almost always absurd, false and shameless.
Therefore, we must fundamentally establish that testimony during interrogation only has weight when it is given completely freely and voluntarily: without threats, without pressure and torture (mental, moral or physical); that the interrogation protocol only has legal significance when it accurately reflects free testimony and is completely freely signed by the interrogated. In all other cases, all this is devoid of any weight and significance and only testifies to the depravity and baseness of the interrogator and the recorder. The record that the executioner and liar forced on an innocent, frightened or tortured person to sign, discredits not the victim, but the executioner.
We must warn in advance the future legitimate rulers of Russia and future historians of the Russian revolution that all these protocols of the Soviet police - no matter what is in them and no matter who signed what in them - are not documents of law and not truth, but living documents monuments of torture and martyrdom. No matter who “confesses frankly” to them - treason, betrayal, espionage for another power, embezzlement, embezzlement or any other “dishonor” - these protocols do not cast the slightest shadow on the signatory, but but they clearly reveal the depravity of the Soviet system, the Communist Party, its leaders, the Soviet police and the Soviet court. Using these documents, future historians of Russia and the socialist movement will study the madness of the revolution, the baseness of the revolutionaries, the essence of the left-wing totalitarian regime and the martyrdom of the Russian people. They will impartially and demonstrably reveal this system, this plan to kill the best Russian people, to bleed and disqualify the Russian people and to prepare enslavement for all other peoples with their blood and bones.