In the song “Dear transmission” Vladimir Vysotsky in allegorical form, and otherwise would not be told what happened in our country in the 1930s. Vysotsky sang: “this little violent. That’s no leaders”.
the numbers started to noticeably decline with the beginning in the country of the Great terror. “Inspiration” it is the Politburo of the CPSU(b) from a decision of 2 July 1937 “On anti-Soviet elements”. In the Executive order of the NKVD No. 00447 combined and equated to criminals (of bytovikam) and former kulaks (political). Equalized deliberately, to confuse in people’s minds all the notions of reality, including the minds “of the NKVD”.
the Order erased the distinction between political and criminal prisoners. He called for the execution of criminals in custody. If the penal Code for common crimes stipulated upper limit of punishment, as a rule, not more than four years, they appointed a penalty – shot. People are not summoned for questioning, calling it “socially dangerous elements” (section 7-35 of the RSFSR criminal code). And regardless of the existence of a judgment in household matters (had or did not have time to make), put a “wall”.
“Wine”, actually, was different. Not enough room in overcrowded prisons for former kulaks and other anti-Soviet elements. Them according to the NKVD order No. 00447, was supposed to arrest, to rapidly carry out the inquiry and “reasonable” to condemn.
the Criminals were mainly the children of the dispossessed. And “fists” is the best peasants who suddenly for some unknown reason, kicked families out of their huts.
Losing a home and a family, and at the same time faith in law and justice, many young people with contempt for the regime and its laws was picked up by the thieves Guild. “And there goes the romance out of alleys with thieves…” It is also of Vysotsky.
At the site of death was shot in Butovo on 20 765. Of these, 5 595 (27%) – those “criminals”. And they are still not rehabilitated. Total number executed in the USSR in 1937-1938 – 700 thousand.
I am a third year applying for the rehabilitation of fellow – seven “criminals” Borovsky district of Kaluga region. The volume of correspondence with the Prosecutor’s office – about fifty letters. It does not recognize the deliberate action of mass liquidation of “criminals” of political repression. The Prosecutor General’s office reports that there were “outcome document” – the decision of the “Troika”, in which the charges under articles 7-35 (“socially dangerous elements”) were excluded. So de case of criminals not subject to revision.
But the “document” is pure fiction.
But the Prosecutor’s office of Kaluga region pointed to domestic crimes that the ruling “Troika” does not appear (article 292). She is trying to revise the ruling “Troika” through the courts. The judicial Board made the appeal submission with the exception of the reference to the OCAsuppress articles 7-35. The alleged “Troika” was wrong, with overestimation of punishment for common crimes.
It is said that the totalitarian era still holds us in the grip of, times political repression of the 1930s ignored or denied.
