Then there is the Soviet style: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-07-mn-13892-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-07-mn-13

Then there is the Soviet style: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-07-mn-13892-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-07-mn-13892-... > The Jerusalem Post said the Soviet secret police last year secured the release of three kidnaped Soviet diplomats in Beirut by castrating a relative of a radical Lebanese Shia Muslim leader, sending him the severed organs and then shooting the relative in the head. > Parts of the man’s body, the paper said, were then sent to the Hezbollah leader with a warning that he would lose other relatives in a similar fashion if the three remaining Soviet diplomats were not immediately released. They were quickly freed. > The newspaper quoted “observers in Jerusalem” as saying: “This is the way the Soviets operate. They do things--they don’t talk. And this is the language Hezbollah understands.”