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...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...
...fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat), was indirectly the cause of turning out James Ramsay MacDonald's first Labor Cabinet when British Conservatives published the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). As Kamenev (born Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (born Apfelbaum) stood in the dock before Ulrich last week, no Bolshevik could doubt but that a Red pigmy was judging two Red giants...
...have been passed by Communist groups all over Russia demanding Death for Kamenev and Zinoviev. Since 117 small fry had already been shot (TIME, Jan. 7). seemingly nothing could have saved Prisoners Zinoviev and Kamenev last week, if the expressions of popular demand were genuine. When dread Judge Ulrich, "Stalin's Executioner," sentenced Zinoviev to only ten years imprisonment and Kamenev to only five...
TIME, Dec. 17, does not make the best use of the Russian story as an object lesson, because of its preoccupation with personalities. Judge Ulrich and Dictator Stalin may or may not be bad men. The chances are that people everywhere are much alike, and that human nature has not changed much in recorded time. It is the values that have changed...
Next thing Russia knew, the 14 tried at Leningrad had been taken out and shot before their sentence was announced. The Government stated that they were denied legal defense to the last. The order to shoot was signed by famed Judge Ulrich who has been signing death warrants in batches these last few weeks during Stalin's campaign of "pure terror" (TIME...