Quote of the Day: 6 January 2022 #QotD

“Interrogation and trial are merely judicial corroboration. They cannot alter your fate, which was previously decided. If it is necessary to shoot you, then you will be shot even if you are altogether innocent. If it is necessary to acquit you, then no matter how guilty you are you will be cleared and acquitted.” -Mironenko, an interrogator
[From Solzhenitsyn's seminal Gulag Archipeligo, this quote from a Soviet interrogator seems apt considering the political imprisonment of several people over a supposed insurrection that was either nothing of the sort, or never going to accomplish the purported aims and doomed to failure from the start. It does make one think about where we are as a country if these kinds of things are going on here today.]