In this Autobiography called “The Persecutor”. By the title of the book alone you can probably tell that the book has something to do with persecutions. So if you don’t want to hear about Communist persecution, then I suggest stopping now. For those who are still here, let’s get to the blog post.

About in the eleventh chapter in the Autobiography, the main character and who is also the writer of the book, is appointed as the head of the Special Police Force by the KGB. The name of the writer is Sergei Kourdakov. So he assembles a team of strong men and gets to work. At first, he only breaks up brawl fights and catches criminals. The group also sometimes starts the fight themselves and then arrest the other combatants. The person who told Kourdakov to organize the group is the operator behind the operation. His name is Nikiforov. What Kourdakov and his group didn’t know was that the operations had a hidden agenda. The meaning of the Special Police Force was to persecute believers. Breaking up of fights and arresting of criminals was just the initiatory process to get Kourdakov and his group used to use violence as an option.

Then when Nikiforov has felt that the group had gotten enough used to violence he sent them out for their first real assignment. They were supposed to take two leaders with them and beat up the rest of the believers in the house. What happened instead was a total and complete disaster. Now I will explain to you what choices Kourdakov made that led him to the failed assignment.

Kourdakov says multiple times earlier in the essay that at that time he was invested in communism. He believed in all the communist teachings and took them seriously. He even became a communist youth league leader. Yet he failed the mission. I think this is because the communist ideology was flawed. Nobody truly believed in these communist beliefs. They instead all do it for the money or the power they receive, not because they truly believe the communist ideologies. Keep in mind that I’m saying “truly believe”, instead of just believing. What I mean by this is that people may say that they believe them or even think they believe them themselves, but really they don’t. I hope that makes it clearer. All of this evidence is inside the book itself. The only reason that Kourdakov and his group accepted this offer of a special police force is that they were being paid 25 rubles per operation. This was a lot of money. Other examples are the personal teaching kids at orphanages. If they truly believed in the communist ideologies they would be nice and kind around the children. This is the opposite of what was actually going on.