In a final appeal before the judges, Rakovsky, former Soviet Ambassador to London, said that his only regret was that Trotsky was not there to share in the responsibility for "his heinous crimes,"
The other defendants cursed Trotsky and Bukharin and asked that Bukharin be given the severest penalty.
They all said that they confessed because they wanted to help the Goviet Government get rid of enemies and also wanted the trial to serve as a warning to their friends and followers, not under arrest, to cease their struggle against the State—
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