Word: krylenko
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-two sentences of Death were demanded, last week, by Soviet Prosecutor Nikolai Vassilievich Krylenko, at the close of the great Shahkta or Technicians Trial before the Soviet Supreme Court (TIME, July...
Prosecutor Krylenko is stocky and kinetic, with large, Asiatic features, and a close-cropped bullethead. His tongue is adept at wooing a prisoner into indiscretion and then lashing him upon...
...smile that verges easily into a sneer, a peculiar hypnotic stare, and a pantherlike bound are other useful attributes of Comrade Krylenko. On the first day of the Shahkta Trial he strode in wearing what U. S. citizens would call a hunting costume: khaki coat and breeches, soft roll collar, homespun stockings, hobnail shoes. To be sure all Russians present in the Hall of Columns were roughly attired; but Hunter Krylenko's costume seemed significant. Within a few hours he had wrung confessions from three small-fry technicians which should set them before a firing squad, and ever since...
...after day the 3,000 constantly changing auditors have sat breathless under the spell of Krylenko, as he brought son to implicate father, blandished brother into betraying brother, and lashed an old technician who was accused of accomplishing the death of his housemaid until the wench suddenly turned up last week...
...bizarre theory of M. Kerensky that the Shahkta Trial is a rehearsed drama with hired "conspirators" confessing right and left at the behest of Prosecutor Krylenko. Curiously enough this extreme view is cautiously echoed by Mr. Walter Duranty, the New York Times' permanent Moscow correspondent who has supplied the only full account of the 'Shahkta Trial carried by any U. S. daily...