The Soviet Death Penalty

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Sep 9, 202646:06Society & Culture

The fact that the USSR executed its citizens with little jurisprudence is well known. The word “troika” is synonymous with Stalinist repressions of the 1930s. What is less known is that the Soviet Union’s death penalty r...

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