The Snow Gestapo

"Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true."
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ring Out, Wild Bells, 1850
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The Execution of the Twenty-Six Baku Commissars, by Isaak Brodsky (1925)

"The next time you wonder how a nation of fastidious, orderly people could turn into the butchers of ten million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other “undesirables”, think about what would happen if you gave the good Sergeant a machine gun instead of a ticket book, and you told him that an easy-to-identify segment of the population in his city has no human rights, and can be shot without legal penalty for not following orders instantly...."