Torture Museum of St. Petersburg

[MrMofo]

Some of the worst things there are the illustrations. Other things I don't know what they would be for.

http://www.zonainsana.com/2010/10/os...mentos-de.html

[Claudius Gothicus]

Gives a whole new meaning to...



Ahh?

[BemusedHorse]

:O Looks like the comfiest chair in the world. I'd buy one.

[Azog 150]

Horrendous. Being locked in an Iron Maiden has got to be one of the worst things imaginable.

[rusina]

I visited one in Tallinn once.

[Copperknickers II]

Wow, Eastern European tortures are much worse than British ones. I went to the tower of London, all they had was a rack and some rather tortuous acting from the guide.

I mean...

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does that spike go where i think it goes?

[rusina]

Ouch!

[BemusedHorse]

And I'm just about to get some lunch as well.

[MrMofo]

Scrolling down, seeing that saw blade, I thought, hmm a saw, no biggee. Then I scrolled to the illustration ... and I had to scroll faster.

[Rebel Jeb]

Man in the Iron Mask!

[Retribution]

By the title, i thought this was a museum you went to to get tortured.

[King Nud]

what the hell does this thing do? :o

[rusina]

what the hell does this thing do? :o

Ancient handcuffs, but the whole body cuffed. Peoplecuffs.

[MrMofo]

what the hell does this thing do? :o

Yeah for some reason I thought this was smallish too. But if it's peoplecuffs I can see *Head, Hands, Feet* instead of um, *Twig, berries, ... manipulators...*

[RO Citizen]

King Nud: My first thought was ball torning

Very nice museums, too bad it's so far, at St.Petersburg...

[Enemy of the State]

Wow, Eastern European tortures are much worse than British ones. I went to the tower of London, all they had was a rack and some rather tortuous acting from the guide.

I waited for so long in line to get inside that section. It was such a let down... We had a real torture exhibition in Tallinn a few years ago.

[Swagger]

worst torture is a chinese one called ''death by a thousand cuts''

basicly the convicted is chained to a wooden frame, while he gets portions of his body/flesh cut over time, lasting for days or even weeks as fatal cuts are avoided to maximize the pain, sometimes small parts of the body was set on fire to cause putrefaction to happen or to morbirdly cauterize the wound (not as a way to prevent infections)

also, limbs could be cut or set on fire, but in a not fatal way.

it was banned in 1905.

for pics search in google lol


i've heard about a torture somewhere but i dont know where they practiced it


basicly you were given some herbs to make you have diarrhea and you would be chained and locked, then put on a hole, as you defecate, vomit, urinate, your body would become a paradise for all kind of horrid worms, insects etc, and you would be eated by them.

[MrMofo]

Um. Yeah those pics seem a little ... inappropriate ... for a gaming forum.

[Swagger]

right, i removed them lol

[MrMofo]

right, i removed them lol

I saw the first image ... that's sticking around in my head a while. Aptly named procedure. And freakin' awful.


If anything, this thread demonstrates not that we don't torture people anymore, but the changing attitude towards it.

These days torture is frowned upon. We have laws against it. The social mores have changed. What torture does happen is less visible, perhaps more psychological, and certainly more clandestine.

These guys represented by the museum have no qualms about torture. Their devices are cast iron and clear about what they're all about. Torture torture torture. It's normal, it's painful, and you're not surviving unscathed.