Gromkie dela: Prestupleniya i nakazaniya v SSSR (Hörbuch (Download))

On the most high-profile criminal cases of the Soviet era. Many materials were previously unpublished and were given to the author personally for the first time from the archives. Thanks to access to these documents and communication with eyewitnesses Eva Merkacheva was able to reconstruct pictures of the trials of the last executed in the USSR - the maniac Fisher, the only child shot in the Soviet era Arkady Neiland, the executioner Antonina Makarova nicknamed Tonka the Machine Gunner, Berta Borodkina, who laid the table for Leonid Brezhnev himself - the only person sentenced to the highest degree under the economic article. It is not only interesting and informative, but also useful to understand the processes that take place in judicial practice today. The only pre-Soviet case that concludes "High-profile Cases" is that of the "queen of the thieving world," Sonya Zolotaya Ruchka, which is where the author's interest in the topic of judicial investigations began. The law on foreign agents, arrests for reposts and solitary pickets are compared by some to the way the government used to deal with anti-Soviet activists. Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" and "Dissemination of deliberately false information denigrating the Soviet state and social order" under Art. 190 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR had a special article for them (to be more exact, two articles). Those found guilty were punished by imprisonment for up to seven years and three years, respectively. Moreover, in the 1960s-80s, it was even possible to be sent to a labor camp for... a collection of Vysotsky's lyrics. The authorities blamed foreign radio and books published abroad for defiling the Soviet citizen. It is necessary to say, that not always the matter ended with distribution of banned literature: some anti-Soviet citizens went on hunger-strike and tried to blow up the family... How they re-educated in the Soviet years, and what has become of the survivors of anti-Soviet - you'll find answers to this question in this audiobook.