Andréi VyshinskiThe Treason Case Summed UpArchivado el 3 de marzo de 2016 en Wayback Machine. Abril de 1938 (en inglés), página 9. Chernov, enlisted by the German Intelligence Service, had instructions from the latter to deprive the Red Army of horses and to poison and infect cattle. Twenty-five thousand horses perished in Western Siberia alone.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/king-commissar.htmlThe state prosecutor of the time was the universally loathed and feared Andrei Yanuarievich Vyshinsky. Vyshinsky plumbed new depths of cruelty in the late 1930s, when he willingly acted as Stalin's mouthpiece in the three notorious Moscow show trials. At these trials he had many of the "Old Bolsheviks"--those who had created the Revolution that he never took part in--put to death. False confessions to ridiculous charges were extracted from the defendants by sadistic interrogators. Independent defense counsel was unheard of. Confession was sufficient to convict.
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Andréi VyshinskiThe Treason Case Summed UpArchivado el 3 de marzo de 2016 en Wayback Machine. Abril de 1938 (en inglés), página 9. Chernov, enlisted by the German Intelligence Service, had instructions from the latter to deprive the Red Army of horses and to poison and infect cattle. Twenty-five thousand horses perished in Western Siberia alone.
