Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before famed Judge Vassily Ulrich, "Stalin's Executioner," stood Comrade Feodor Medved, Chief of the Gay-pay-op in Leningrad where Kirov was assassinated. With Comrade Medved were arraigned eleven other high Gay-pay-oo chiefs. In Russia today the accused always confess when their case is of importance to the State. Last week's trial was no exception. According to the State's press handout, the Gay-pay-oo chiefs confessed that the Gay-pay-oo knew Stalin's friend Kirov was threatened with assassination, did nothing to prevent...
Rigidly barred from the Soviet Union last week was a brief blast from Great Exile Leon Trotsky, scholarly elaborator of the Doctrine of Permanent Revolution and No. 1 enemy of Stalin. At the Kirov trials, the State has charged that an unnamed "foreign consul" in Leningrad gave Assassin Nikolaev money and asked him for "a letter to Trotsky...
...grim axiom of Soviet trials is "They Always Confess." Last week that axiom again proved sound in Leningrad where Joseph Stalin was having privately polished off a group of redoubtable Old Bolsheviks-some older than Stalin in the Communist aristocracy founded by Nikolai Lenin...
...accused were too eminent to be tried in Moscow, although in Moscow drastic Judge Vassily Ulrich recently ordered 36 of the 117 executions decreed to avenge Dictator Stalin's assassinated "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week Judge Ulrich arrived in Leningrad in the midst of exceedingly select Communist company-including such prisoners as Comrade Lev Kamenev (brother-in-law of Great Exile Trotsky) and Comrade Grigory Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," and personal bodyguard of Lenin during the late Dictator's years of exile...
...engineer of the overtaking train be "drastically punished" (i. e. shot), the government newsorgan Izvestia conjectured that he had run past a stop signal to earn a bonus for being on time, added, "During 1934 there have been 63 proven instances of engineers passing closed semaphores on the Moscow-Leningrad line to earn such premiums...