The history of the Inquisition or reliable ways to recognize heretics. Grigulevich I.R.

The Tribunal of the High Inquisition for centuries terrified all the enlightened minds of Europe. Inquisitors did not spare anyone: an accidental word abandoned in the tavern, a careless letter, even a refusal to eat pork could be perceived as heresy. The torture of the Inquisition was terrible, and inhuman conditions were created in its prisons.

the Inquisition became the first full -fledged secret police in the history of mankind. She also developed the main legal and practical methods of combating dissent: the introduction of consumer agents, the promotion of denunciation, fake defenders in court, torture used in some countries so far.

This is exactly what the book of one of the The greatest Soviet scientists of his time, diplomat, scout, great specialist in the history of the Vatican and Latin America, Joseph Romualdovich Grigulevich.