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Four days later the prestige of the 0. G. P. U. was further upheld by the execution of five of the engineers recently sentenced to Death at the great Shahkta Trial (TIME, July 2; July 16). "Cheka" agents had assembled the evidence on which they were convicted. Soldiers attached to the O. G. P. U. fired, last week, the five final volleys...
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...
...such shoddy human stuff the Shahkta Trial is providing an unprecedented thrill for Soviet Russians-who are deprived of porno-tabloids, sex dramas, and even mystery plays by the wisdom and dictatorship of the Communist Party...
...Russie Opprimee is the Paris news organ of M. Alexandre Kerensky, the post-Tsarist and pre-Communist head of the Russian State. Though M. Kerensky is cordially detested by most Tsarists and by all Communists, he is now publishing an "expose" of the Shahkta Trial...
...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...