Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph

Re:Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the pol... by pmachinery on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:33AM (#24199028)

Citizen X is an American drama. If it depicts what you're saying (I've seen it but can't remember it) then it's just another Western dramatization depicting post-Stalin Soviet Union in cliches from the 1930s.

In the real life case Citizen X is inspired by[0], nobody was tortured for a conviction, even the guilty man, who was simply put into a cell with a police informer to gather information and questioned normally by investigators who only had ten days under Soviet law to release or charge him.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo

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Re:Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the pol... by petre on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:41AM (#24200009)

Post-Stalin Soviet Union clichés, of course. How do you think the wrongly arrested people confessed to the murders in the first place?

"At his trial, Kravchenko retracted his confession and maintained his innocence, stating his confession had been obtained under extreme duress."

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Re:Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the pol... by pmachinery on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:06PM (#24202877)

> How do you think the wrongly arrested people confessed to the murders in the first place?

As in that example with Kravchenko, the same way false confessions occur in every country, pressure in some form from the police who want to convict their prime suspect / clear up a case.

It's indefensible but it's nothing unique to the Soviet Union and it's not uncommon.

https://theconversation.com/suspects-confess-to-crimes-they-...

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Re:Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the pol... by watwut on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:33PM (#24200756)

That does not make citizen-x documentary. These movies were made from imagination.

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