(Comments to the news about the publication of the list of NKVD employees, with the note that "they are all cowboys!")

YYY: At the domestic level, I often encounter people who claim that their grandfather, grandfather, or grandmother had been repressed on a political basis. And so the USSR is a bloody regime that deserves its own “Nuremberg.” At a closer examination, it sometimes turns out that the whole "politics" was reduced to the banal theft of a bag of grain from a public cage in the year of famine. That is, all the same "I have the right to a hamon!", as is the case with the present.

xxx: In our factory, the archives were collected, we reached the documents for 37-38 years. There were many repressed. I started reading the details of the case, was surprised. In some places, the punishment is very serious.

YYY: Wow, and I’m talking about...

xxx: Well, I found a document that the engineer of the factory was shot and his subordinates in the camps. I started reading the details. Instead of checking the steam car, they went to drink and play cards. The steam car was released without inspection and the boiler exploded, there were victims. The punishment came accordingly.