Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other prisoners got around to confessing in various ways that their purpose as conspirators was simply to kill Russia's pres-ent rulers and become masters of the State themselves, with no program in mind as to how they would run Russia, and no smallest criticism at the trial last week of anything ever done by Joseph Stalin...
...happy that there is a Stalin and that he will continue to lead the country!" cried Prisoner Sergei Mrachkovsky, gilding the lily. Even this was capped by Prisoner Kamenev whose second and final lecture at the trial was a deliberate incitement to Communists abroad to go and assassinate Trotsky. "Zinoviev and I are dead!" cried Kamenev. "Trotsky remains the only person to guide terroristic activities against Stalin. The sooner his hands are checked the better." Judge Ulrich, who has the reputation of having handed out more Death sentences than any other jurist in the world, left the court to cogitate...
Significance. At the opening of the trial great interest focused on Prosecutor Vishinsky's blanket charge that the prisoners had operated hand-in-glove with Nazi agents and explicitly with those of Supreme Chief of the German Police Forces Herr Heinrich Himmler. Once this Mrs. de Vries (arrow...
Still an active contributor to radical journals in many parts of the earth. Writer Trotsky has a great body of intellectual disciples who refer to themselves as the "Fourth International." Communists of the Third International hoped this week that the Moscow trial would tend to reduce Trotsky from the status of a great radical ideologist to that of a common instigator of killings and thus weaken his Fourth International in its ideological competition with their Third. Certainly the Moscow trial had the effect of giving Communists all over the world something else to think about instead of why Joseph Stalin...
Perhaps the most significant Moscow fact was that at the trial last week almost nothing came out which was not directly or indirectly to Stalin's personal advantage. He emerged from the court records so great that even his worst enemies quarreled over the honor of killing him; so well-guarded that would-be assassins sat in his presence not daring to pull the trigger; so idolized that Zinoviev's secretary, rather than kill Stalin, killed himself; so lucky that every plot against him failed; and finally so wise that a whole boxful of Bolsheviks intent on killing...