Iron Felix

"We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted," said Dzerzhinsky in a chilling quote in 1918. "Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession."

https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/how-kgb-founder-iron-felix-justified-executions?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

Link at maggiesfarm.

A more honest statement would have been: “We won.”