[[File:Martyred in the USSR Poster.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The above photograph shows the Russian Nikolai Khmara, a new Baptist convert in the [[Soviet Union]], after his arrest by the [[KGB]]. He was tortured to death and his tongue cut out.<ref>Double references:
*Gonzales, Kevin (January 29, 2013 or bef.). [http://martyredintheussr.com/ "Martyred in the USSRMilitant Atheism in the former Soviet Union, Russian Orthodox church, religious persecution, atheist"]Martyred in the USSR website. See [[Martyred in the USSR: Militant Atheism in the former Soviet Union]].*Hoover, Peter with Petrov, Serguei V. (1999). [http://www.anabaptists.org/books/russians/trs-1.html "Anabaptists: The Russians' Secret by Peter Hoover with Serguei V. Petrov, -- Speaking Without without a Tongue".] ''The Russians' Secret: What Christians Today Would Survive Persecution.'' Anabaptists.org website/books/Russians, Chapter ch. 1 (Pages , pp. 1-3)].</ref>]]
In the atheistic [[communism|communist]] regime of the [[Soviet Union]], torture was frequently employed to extract false confessions which were subsequently used to establish that individuals were "enemies of the people" - particularly under the [[Militant atheism|militant atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]]'s regime.<ref>[[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]]. "The Gulag Archipelago"</ref>