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BLACKBIRD – MASTERPOST

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationship: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov 
Characters: Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov, Yakov Feltsman, Sara Crispino, Emil Nekola, Okukawa Minako, Celestino Cialdini, Christophe Giacometti, Otabek Altin, Phichit Chulanont, Georgi Popovich

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe – Spies & Secret Agents, Alternate Universe – World War II, Alternate Universe – Cold War, Romance, Drama, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, POV Alternating, Period-typical Homophobia, Period-typical Racism
Wordcount: 102,616

The year is 1942, and Europe is at war. Captain Victor Nikiforov, an intelligence operative for the NKVD, has been trapped in Berlin by the German invasion of the USSR. Posing as a Nazi industrialist, his days are spent charming information out of Axis diplomats to try and keep the Red Army fighting another day.

Yuuri Katsuki, a foreign-educated bureaucrat in the Japanese Embassy, has secrets of his own concealed beneath his unremarkable demeanour. When he uncovers Victor’s real identity, it will alter the course of both of their lives forever.

1. Berlin, Part One
2. Berlin, Part Two
3. Berlin, Part Three
4. London, Part One
5. London, Part Two
6. London, Part Three
7. Bern

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TIL in 2015 a father saved his son’s life when doctors wrongly declared him braindead and were taking him off life support. He barricaded himself with a gun in the hospital and had a stand-off with SWAT until his son squeezed his hand. The son made a full recovery

via reddit.com

I actually just heard about this on the radio; the Michael Berry Show on WRNO 99.5. The hospital was trying to harvest his organs, and declared him dead. His father barricaded the door, and held an entire swat team at bay, until his son squeezed his hand, awake from a forced coma.

It gets better…

The swat team brought their own doctors who, after finally securing the room, started to check the kid. Turns out, the kid was fine, after waking up from the coma.

It gets better…

After the swat team doctors checked out the kid, there was a nurse who came in to “check” on the kid. The swat doctors asked to see her orders. Turns out she didn’t have any. What she did have was a 50cc syringe in her pocket, full of a powerful sedative. 5cc’s were enough to put someone in a deep coma. There were 50cc’s in the syringe, more than enough to euthanize the kid.

It gets better…

Swat doctors took her into custody. She refused to talk. They got a warrant and started checking into the deaths happening at the hospital. Turns out, there were a great many “quick decisions” made by hospital staff, for patients to be put into medically induced comas, from which they never woke up. All of which were finalized with organ transplants. Organ transplants which the families of the deceased did not know about.

TL:DR The hospital was euthanizing patients after illegally putting them into medical comas, then harvesting their organs.