Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-04
Hanging Judge characterized
as degenerate and bird brain.

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Not long ago &C only several
days before the present Congress
we called to the Central Com
mittee presidium session and
Intercepted the investigative
Judge RodoS, who In his time
investigated and Intercepted
IKoSsior, Chubar and Kosaryev.
He is a vile person, with the
brain of a bird and morally COM
lpletely degenerate. And it was
this man who was deciding the
fate of prominent party work.
lers: he was making judgments
also concerning the politics in
these matters, because having
Established their crime" he pro-
Ivided Herewith materials from
which important political impli-
cations could be drawn.
The question arises whether a
man with such an intellect could
alone make the investigation in
a manner to prove the guilt of
people such as Kossior and
others. No, he could not have
done it without proper directives.
At the Central Committee presid-
ium session ne told us: II was
told that Kossior and Chubar
were peoples enemies and for
this reason. I, as an investigative
judge. had to make them confess
that they are enemies" (Indig-
nation in the hall) -.
when we look at many of our
novels, films and historical sci
entific studies" the role of Stain
in the patriotic war appears to
be entirely improbable. Stain
had foreseen everything. The So
Wet army, on the basis of a
strategic plan prepared by Stain
long before, used the tactics Of
so-called "active defense" i.e.,
tactics which, as we know, al
lowed the Germans to come up
to Moscow and Stalingrad.
We have to analyze this mat
ter carefully because it has a
tremendous significance not only
from the historical. but especially
from the political, educational
and practical point of view.
'Focts of matter held not in
line with StoIin's own legend.
What are the facts Of this
matter?
Before the war our press and
all our political-educational work
was characterized by its brag-
ging tone: When an enemy vio-
lates the holy Soviet soil, then
for every blow of the enemy we
will answer with three blows
and we will battle the enemy
on his soil and we will win with
out much harm to ourselves. But
these positive statements were
not based in all areas on con-
crete facts, which would actu-
ally guarantee the immunity Of
our borders.
During the war and after the
war Stain put forward the the
sis that the tragedy which our
nation experienced in the first
part of the war was the result
of the unexpected" attack OF
the Germans against the Soviet
union. But, comrades, this is
completely untrue.
Documents which have now
been published show that by
April 8, 1941 Churchill, through
his Ambassador to the USSR
(Sir Stafford) Cripps, personally
warned Stain that the Germans
had begun regrouping their
armed units with the intent Of
attacking the Soviet Union.
] Churchill stressed this re-
peatedly in his dispatches OF
April 10 and in the following
days. However. Stain took nc
heed Of these warnings. What is
more, Stain ordered that nc
credence be given to information
of this sort. in order not to pro-
woke the initiation Of military
Operations.
We must assert that informa-
ton OF this sort concerning the
threat Of German armed inva-
sion Of Soviet territorv wae rom.