Word: kudryavtsev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Harold J. Berman, in Russia to do research, quoted the deputy prosecutor general of the Soviet Union, P.I. Kudryavtsev, as his source. The Russian said that only two percent of the prisoners released were political prisoners...
Berman said Kudryavtsev told him that more than half of the total Soviet prison population was released immediately after Stalin's death under the amnesty law of 1953. All sentences passed during the last 25 years have been or are being reexamined, even those already completed, Berman was told...
Repeated reports of release of prisoners and abolition of concentration camps have come up this year, but no estimates of totals such as Berman obtained. He quoted Kudryavtsev as saying that two-thirds of the concentration, or labor, camps have already been liquidated...
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