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...week to the 117 executions and 97 other sentences meted out by Soviet star-chamber courts after the assassination of Dictator Joseph Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). For the first time since the Russian Revolution of 1917, eminent agents of the dread Gay-pay-oo or secret police were themselves dragged before one of the drumhead courts they have made odious...
...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...
They were let off by Judge Ulrich with sentences averaging three years each, by far the mildest in the Kirov case. Russians shrugged. The Gay-pay-oo, they observed, is an invincible state within the State. Even after confessing what amounted to collusion in the killing of Stalin's friend Kirov, Comrade Medved of the Gay-pay-oo will go scot free in exactly three years...
...almost-forgotten purpose. He turned over a leaf, promised Neloa to be "a good citizen, strong and solid, like a pile of beef. I'll be going to church soon. I'll be rocking my child on my knee and saying dada and goo-goo and oo-ittle-wubbity-wart. Virtues will be sticking out of me like candles out of a birthday cake. Squeeze me and I'll break into prayer. Kick me and I'll recite the Sermon on the Mount...
...anyone familiar with Soviet trials the document offered as Assassin Nicolaev's confession bore earmarks of labored composition by the Gay-pay-oo. It confessed that an unspecified foreign consul† gave Nicolaev 5,000 rubles and offered to put him in touch with Great Red Exile Leon Trotsky. "From Capitalistic darkness," editorialized the official newsorgan Pravda, "comes the stench which Kirov's murderers breathed!" According to Pravda, the leaders of the Trotsky faction accused in the case are "prostituted scoundrels, arrant blackguards, cowards, traitors, bankrupt politicians, deserters, outcasts of the human race and thrice accursed...