The People's Court.
Under the name of a court, it was actually a place for political judgments. According to Judge Andrei Vysinsky, "Criminal law is a tool of class struggle and racial struggle." Most defendants sent here ended up on the scaffold and the guillotine.
Today seemed to be no exception.
The presiding judges were the notorious "Grim Reaper Judges"—Reidt Friesler and Andrei Vysinsky. The death sentences they had signed off were already thicker than bricks, but pardons and acquittals were always zero, and so far there seemed no possibility of breaking that record.
If one considered the fact that the defendants were human, the likelihood of breaking the record seemed even more distant.
