State and Criminal Law of the East Central European Dictatorships
Journal: Legal studies on Central Europe
Year: 2023

The chapter is devoted to discussing constitutional and criminal law as it existed in selected coun- tries of Central and Eastern Europe between 1944 and 1989 (Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Romania, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria). As a result of the great powers’ decisions, these countries came under the direct supervision of the Soviet Union and adopted totalitarian political solutions from it. This meant rejecting the idea of the tripartite division of power and affirming the