According to NKVD records, Vladimir was not an ideal student in his NKVD orphanage in Annenkovo: "He expressed dissatisfaction with the arrests of his family by the NKVD in conversations and letters.” Excerpts from his interrogation by an NKVD sergeant on April 24, 1938, reveal his "confession”:
NKVD: Our investigation shows that during your stay in the
Annenkovo orphanage you conducted counter-revolutionary activity. Tell us about the details.
Moroz: I did not conduct any counter-revolutionary activity.
NKVD: You are lying. The investigation requires a complete confession.
Moroz: I repeat that I did not conduct counter-revolutionary activity.
NKVD: We found your letter of counter-revolutionary content. What do you have to say about this?
[At this point in the interrogation, Moroz's tone changes to one of submission. We would guess that he was tortured at this point. His confession then uses standard NKVD language, which is underlined in the text. These parts of the confession may have been drafted by the interrogator for his signature.]
Moroz: Yes, these letters have counter-revolutionary content and I am the author. In these letters I expressed evident hostility to Soviet construction, praising Trotsky-Bukharin bandits while sympathizing with the condemned and executed enemies of the people, and I compromised the leaders of the party and Soviet state and personally Stalin.
The NKVD's conclusion of June 14, 1938: The fifteen-year-old Moroz had violated Article 58 of the Russian criminal codex (counterrevolution) by "defaming the leaders of the party and Soviet state and personally Stalin.” Vladimir was sentenced by a special NKVD tribunal to three years in a corrective-labor camp on October 25, 1938. He survived there less than half a year.
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