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...like Nikolai Krylenko, famed for his pouncing cross examinations of witnesses and prisoners at numerous Soviet "propaganda trials" (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930, et ante), retired as State Prosecutor about a year ago, became Commissar (Minister) of Justice. Last week the Red State officially hailed Comrade Krylenko's "services in strengthening our courts and exposing sabotage and counter revolution," conferred on him the Order of Lenin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Krylenko & Carfare | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...photographers prowled and climbed about unhindered, taking snapshots. Cinema cameras, both silent and sound-recording, purred softly. To the half-million citizens shouting "Death! Death!" outside, batteries of loudspeakers shouted every word of the trial. To illiterate millions of Soviet citizens the state radio broadcast. By order of Prosecutor Krylenko daily bulletins from the trial were despatched from Moscow to every city, town and village in the vast Union, there to be posted up, enlivened by cartoons which the government supplied. Within a few hours after the trial began every cinema theatre in Moscow was showing newsreels of this real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Supreme Propaganda | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...Father. The theme of the trial (already expounded by Prosecutor Krylenko in a 30-column statement which every Soviet newsorgan dutifully printed) is that France, her Little Allies (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania) and Great Britain have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Supreme Propaganda | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...merely sabotage. In that trial and again last week the son of one of the accused passionately denounced his father as a traitor to the proletariat. During the Schakhta proceedings several of the accused pleaded "not guilty," defended themselves wildly, vainly in a dramatic radio dialog with Prosecutor Krylenko, who beat down their defense as a tiger claws to bits a bleating sheep. Last week however all the star prisoners-six of the eight accused-expressed a desire to plead guilty, entered the courtroom with bulky, manuscript confessions which they proceeded to read in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Supreme Propaganda | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...second day of the trial Professor Ramzin concluded his confession with a four-hour address, bore out all the contentions of Prosecutor Krylenko, summed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Supreme Propaganda | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

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