with Eiduk during this period in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade, wrote the following about him in the first volume of his memoirs: The name was terrifying, and he himself boasted of it. Eiduk, a member of the board of the Cheka, was distinguished, like the famous Latsis (also a Latvian, like Eiduk), with purely sadistic bloodthirstiness and unrestrained ferocity ... ... In conclusion of the description of Eiduk's work, I will give a small episode. Somehow he stayed with me until 11-12 pm. There was something very urgent. We sat at my desk. Suddenly from Lubyanka came (the wind was from there) "Start the car!" And then the truck engine roared. Eiduk froze in mid-sentence. His eyes were screwed up, as if in sweet languor, and in a kind of tender and languid voice he said with satisfaction, looking at me: - "Oh, ours work ..." I didn't know then what the sounds of a humming engine meant. - "Who works?... what is it?" I asked. - "Ours... at the Lubyanka..." he answered, making a movement with the index finger of his right hand, as if raising and lowering the trigger of a revolver. A cold horror crept behind me... It became clear and so terrifying from this understanding... Pictures of what was happening and is happening in Soviet dungeons... Here, nearby, a little almost in my room... - "Didn't you know that?" he asked in surprise. "After all, it’s every evening at this time... they 'take out' who should be..." - "Horrible!" I couldn't resist. - "No, it's good... " - languidly, with pleasure in his voice, like a maniac in sexual ecstasy, said Eiduk, - "this brightens the blood..." And it seemed to me that some terrible, shaggy monster was approaching me... a monster breathing on me the icy breath of death... It hummed outside the window of my room, where I lived, worked and slept... Death buzzed... Similarly in 1919, an American diplomat testified to Congress that Eiduk was, with another Cheka leader, considered the "most blood-thirsty monster in Russia". On April 23, 1923, he was dismissed from his post and expelled from the Bolshevik Party for "loitering and playing in casinos" and sent to Central Asia, where he served on the Turkestan-Siberian Railway Planning Board (1923-1924). After that, he settled in the Supreme National Economic Council of the USSR, where he worked from 1925