Loud business. Crimes and punishment in the USSR. Merkacheva E.

A book about the most high -profile criminal cases of the Soviet era. Many materials were not previously published and were first issued from the archives personally to the author. Thanks to access to these documents and communicating with eyewitnesses, Eve Merkacheva managed to restore the pictures of trials over the last executed in the USSR-maniac Fisher, over the only child Arkadius, over the executioner Antonina Makarova, nicknamed Tonka, a machine gunner, over Berta Borodkina, covering up. The tables of Leonid Brezhnev himself are the only one sentenced to the highest extent by the economic article.

to throw the bridge into the past not only interesting and informative, but also useful for awareness of the processes that occur in judicial practice today. Archive illustrations from criminal cases and materials of the courts are attached to each chapter - they give the reader the opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere of the events described and see the genuine interrogation protocols, handwritten sentences, certificates of the death penalty and what volumes of cases, victims, criminals and criminals looked like. places of crime. The book is completed by the only pre -Soviet case of the “queen of the thieves' world” Sonya of the Golden Hand, from which the author’s interest in the topic of court investigations began.