kalinin was among other high ranking officials indorsing the execution of the poles. the building standing opposite the monument to kellin in. the n.k.v.d. regional headquarters this is where the lives of the polish prisoners were cut short. more than fifty years later dimitri talk of who ran the local n.k.v.d. was interrogated by investigators from the military prosecutor general's office. afterwards showed me to the doctor of archive documents proving his guilt realized that it was in vain to deny anything and gave a detailed true testimony. my men didn't shoot more than three hundred people a day only once did they shoot as many that had to be done under the cover of darkness because the nights were now too short. so they brought two hundred fifty people at a time and we shot them during the night. those about to be shot were taken to the basement one by one supposedly to have their papers checked but once there they were stripped of their personal belongings and valuables then did it occur to the prisoners that they were never going to leave that place a life even