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Many of the NKVD officers Beria promoted were brutal torturers. The theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold, who was interrogated by Lev Shvartzman, described being beaten on the spine and soles of his feet until "the pain was so intense that it felt as if boiling water was being poured on these sensitive areas."
Robert Eikhe, a former high ranking party official, was sadistically beaten and had an eye gouged out by Boris Rodos, in Beria's office, while Beria..