Abstract
Comrade Eikhe was arrested on April 29, 1938. . . . The investigation into his case was conducted with the most extreme violations of Soviet law, arbitrary abuses and falsifications. Under torture, he was forced to sign interrogation transcripts that had been prepared in advance by the investigators, implicating in anti-Soviet activity not only Eikhe himself but also many other prominent party members and Soviet workers. . . . Eikhe’s second appeal to Stalin of October 27, 1939 has been preserved . . . : “This is how it happened: I just couldn’t take the torments that Ushakov and Nikolaev inflicted on me—especially the former, who caused unbearable agony by deftly making use of the fact that my spine was still only partly healed after being fractured the first time. I was forced to slander myself and other people. . . . ” On February 4, 1940, Eikhe was shot. (Noise, expressions of outrage in the hall). —Nikita Khrushchev, “On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences” (the “Secret Speech”), 1956
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