Marxism about STALIN
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However what took the cake was Joseph Stalin’s abuse of the judicial system to purge his rivals at one stroke. The Moscow Trials from 1936 to 1938 were the most gargantuan judicial sham in history. The only object of this kangaroo process was to exterminate the Bolshevik old guard thereby allowing Stalin to make the state synonymous with the self.
On 15 August 1936, the official Soviet news agency reported that the Russian state prosecutor had charged Gregory Zinoviev, Leon Kamenev, I.N. Smirnov and 13 others of conspiring with the Nazi regime to assassinate seven front ranking Soviet leaders, and the murder of one S.M. Kirov more than 18 months earlier. Nine days later on 24 August 1936, the president of the tribunal read the verdict sentencing all the defendants to death and forfeiture of all property belonging to them. Less than twenty-four hours later the press proclaimed that the mercy appeal of the condemned men had been vetoed by the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union and further reported, the verdict has been actioned.
In less than a fortnight since the first revelation of an alleged terrorist plot, 16 men were allegedly tried and mercilessly executed after a judicial sham. Among them were names inextricably linked with the Russian revolutionary movement, the October Revolution, and the initial period of the Third International. The sentence pronounced included the directive to bring before the court on the same charges, Leon Trotsky and his son L.L. Sedov. Both “Father and Son” were Stalin’s proverbial nightmare.
Sixty-seven years later in the September 2013, the National Association of Judicial Magistrates of Chile issued a statement — imploring victims of the Pinochet dictatorship to pardon the judiciary’s “wrongful omissions of its duties.” The statement candidly confessed “Our courts’ inadmissibility and rejections of thousands of complaints — many of which were rightly filed on behalf of compatriots whose fate was never determined — the systematic refusal to investigate criminal acts perpetrated by state agents, and reluctance to personally get involved in the actions taking place in detention centers and torture, no doubt contributed to the painful imbalance of human rights during this dark period,” Furthermore while beseeching for absolution, the magistrates catechised Chile’s Supreme Court to reflect on their own conduct during Pinochet’s 17-year-old dictatorship.
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