The O.G.P.U.

Curiously enough the very people who are most horrified at the dark doings of the O.G.P.U. show a fervent enthusiasm for mass murder in warfare—defensive, of course, but so do the O.G.P.U. regard themselves as a defensive force. The Russians could well consider themselves more humane than the gallant imperialist soldier—their executions are comparatively rapid and painless; their victims are not total strangers driven against them by compulsion; and the number of them is only a rivulet beside the ocean of the victims of capitalist wars.

—M.C.H.