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threatened with execution. Those who have not filled the whole of their qu-
ota are bound and forced to run naked all along the main street of the villa-
ge and then locked up in another unheated hangar. A great number of wo-
men have been beaten until they are unconscious and then thrown naked in-
to holes dug in the snow… 112
Stalin believed that Spain represented opportunities for the USSR
and that meddling in that country would bear fruit. For that reason he to-
ok sides and supported the Communists in the Spanish Civil War. But
with that the terrorism in the USSR overflowed into Spain. One example
of the oppression and torture there was the concentration camp that 200
anti-Stalinists were held in at the beginning of 1938. "When the Stalinists
decided to open a cheka," one victim recalled;
There was a small cemetery being cleaned out nearby. The Chekists had a di-
abolical idea: they would leave the cemetery's tombs open, with the skele-
tons and the decomposing bodies in full view. That's where they locked up
the most difficult cases. They had some particularly brutal methods of tortu-
re. Many prisoners were hung up by their feet, upside down, for whole
days. Others they locked in tiny cupboards with just a tiny air hole near the
face to breathe through… One of the worst methods was known as "the dra-
wer"; prisoners were forced to squat in tiny square boxes for several days.
Some were kept there unable to move for eight to ten days. 113
In 1931 Pope Pius XI had this to say about the violence Communism
had inflicted on the world in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno: