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OK Louis, I'm wrong.
The Cheka never tortured suspects and Trotsky disapproved of torture.
Trotsky deeply regretted any human rights abuses he became aware of and
did all he could to put an end to them. Dzerzinsky also did all that was
in his power to prevent people from being brutally interrogated.
There. The factual record has been put straight.
No actually, I'm just kidding. I really don't have time to
copy-and-paste testimonials of prisoners interrogated by the Cheka or
passages from Trotsky's letters in which he talks about
counter-revolutionary activites and the means of eliminating them.
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