‘I am convicted of a crime which I have never committed … The charges are all false and made up. I have never been a member of any anti-Soviet organization …’
SERGEI PAVLOVICH KOROLEV from Kolyma in Siberia, one of Stalin’s notorious Gulag camps, 1938
‘I was incredibly happy to be in the presence of Comrade Stalin …’
SERGEI PAVLOVICH KOROLEV, 1947