In Voronezh, seven nuns were boiled in a cauldron of tar. The bishop of Voronezh was boiled alive in a big pot; after which the monks, with revolvers aimed at their heads, were forced to drink this soup.

Priests were stripped naked, blasphemously married to sows, then nailed to the crucifix over the altar.

In Perm, the Cheka cut out the cheeks and eyes of a priest who was then paraded through the streets and was buried alive. The eyes of monks were poked out, their tongues were cut off, and they were buried alive or crucified.

In Tsaritsyn and Kamyshin, the hands of victims were amputated with a saw. In Poltava and Kremenchug, the victims were impaled. In Odessa, they were roasted alive in ovens or ripped to pieces.

In other places, the victim’s head was placed on an anvil and slowly crushed with a steam hammer. Those due to undergo the same punishment the next day were forced to watch.

In Kiev, Chekists put rats in cages placed against prisoners’ bellies, and then poked the rats with red-hot metal rods until the heat-maddened rats gnawed into the victims’ intestines. Then the victims were placed in coffins with a decomposing body and buried alive.

The Chekists in Kharkov placed the victims in a row and nailed their hands to a table, cut around their wrists with a knife, poured boiling water over the hands and pulled the skin off. This was called pulling off the glove. And they were scalped.

There were Chekists who cut open the stomachs of their victims, following which they pulled out a length of the small intestine & nailed it to a pole &, with a whip, forced the victim to run circles around the pole until the whole intestine had been unraveled & the victim died.

Chekists pushed burning cigars into the open eyes of victims until they were blinded; then they were impaled and roasted like a pig over an open fire.

The Chekists often arrested whole families and tortured the children before the eyes of their parents, and the wives before their husbands.