Word: sovietized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentence in important Soviet cases must be wholly in the holograph of the presiding judge, who can thus be held personally responsible by Stalin for every word and punctuation mark. Last week Judicial Field Marshal Vasily Ulrikh, delivering the sentence of the Soviet Supreme Court upon 21 Russian civilians, read clear through his long manuscript without once looking up at any of the 18 he condemned to death,* or the three he sentenced to imprisonment.† The sentence was delivered at 4:30 a. m. and out went the three judges quickly into the dead of night...
...clothes by his wife together with a Christian prayer. The court found that Rozengolts alone of the 21 had wished to kill Stalin with his own hand, had for this purpose sought as many interviews with the Dictator as possible. After so confessing, Communist Rozengolts wound up: "Millions of Soviet children, including my own, sing that There Is No Other Land In This World Where One Breathes With Such Freedom! ... I say farewell. . . . Long live the Bolshevist Party under the leadership of Stalin! . . . Long live Communism...
...loud in the Stalin chorus may save them, but the piece of consecrated bread may well mean death for his wife. Nothing was known last week, nothing is ever published, about the fate of members of the families of men shot after the trials in Moscow. In the Soviet Union they are subject to confiscations of property and transportation to exile in such places as Siberia...
...Soviet Borgias. The Soviet Political Police have long been suspected of using poison in dealing with political opponents of Stalin, particularly in Asia, and revelations at the trial last week disclosed that the OGPU had a poison laboratory. It was at the disposal of former OGPU Chief Yagoda, sentenced to death, presumably is at the disposal of his successor, OGPU Chief Yezhov...
...other cases Yagoda was testified to have used the OGPU's power to force eminent Soviet physicians to put such Big Bolsheviks as Novelist Gorki quietly out of the way. "In order to poison a man it is not absolutely necessary to use action poison," testified the Kremlin Hospital's chief, Dr. Leon G. Levin, about to be executed. "The simplest medicine, if used at the wrong time and in the wrong doses, will serve as poison...