Tokens: 28
.
The
domestic
courts
established
that
the
applicant
had
fulfilled
the
essential
legal
requirements
of
a
criminal
act
,
namely
,
the
actus
reus
and
the
mens
rea
.
They
described
the
applicant
as
an
agent
of
the
repressive
Soviet
authorities
,
whose
aim
was
to
suppress
all
kinds
of
national
resistance
and
exterminate
all
partisans
as
a
separate
group
.
It
transpires
from
the
documents
on
which
the
prosecutor
based
the
charges
of
genocide
against
the
applicant
that
between
1950
and
1952
the
applicant
attended
a
special
MGB
school
for
young
recruits
of
that
organisation
(
see
paragraph
17
of
the
present
judgment
;
see
also
K.-H.W.
v.
Germany
[
GC
]
,
no
.
37201/97
,
§
§
71
and
74
,
ECHR
2001‑II
)
.
In
1952
the
applicant
was
an
operational
officer
of
the
Šakiai
district
MGB
.
It
is
also
relevant
that
,
as
regards
the
applicant
’s
personality
,
he
was
politically
aware
and
had
good
work
results
(
see
paragraphs
20
-
21
of
the
present
judgment
)
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