to 1928. In 1928, after the restoration of his Party membership, he continued to work in various economic positions. In 1934, he began to manage the Eastern district of the Gulag camps (Дмитровлаг), whose prisoners participated in the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal. Arrest, execution and rehabilitation During the Great Terror, on June 4, 1938, he was arrested by the NKVD as part of the "Latvian Operation" on charges of "espionage and belonging to a counter-revolutionary organization". He was executed at the Komunarka mass grave near Moscow on August 28, 1938. He was rehabilitated in 1956. Poetry Eiduk is best remembered for his poetry extolling the political terror of the Soviet secret police. In the early 1920s, soon after the Red Army invasion of Georgia, he published the following poem in an anthology entitled The Cheka's Smile: There is no greater joy, nor better music Than the crunch of broken lives and bones. This is why when our eyes are languid And passions begin to seethe stormily in the breast, I want to write on your sentence One unquivering thing: "Up against the wall! Shoot!" Works Alexander Wladimirovic Eiduck, Die russische Hungersnot 1921-1922 und ihre Bekämpfung im Lichte der Tatsachen, Berlin, Vereinigung internationaler Verlagsanstalten, 1922. References Further reading Bertrand M. Patenaude. The Big Show in Bololand. (chapter 22, Comrade Eiduk), Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002, pp. 346–353. 1886 births 1938 deaths People from Madona Municipality People from Kreis Wenden Old Bolsheviks Cheka Soviet poets Latvian male poets Soviet male writers 20th-century male writers Russian executioners Soviet executioners People of the Russian Civil War People executed by the Soviet Union by firearm Great Purge victims from Latvia Soviet rehabilitations