The Archive · 1938

Sabotage Leader

Krylenko, Mountaineer, Denounced by Successor

Moscow, July 27.

Mr, Krylenko, who was relieved of his functions last year as People's Commissar for. Justice, was today called an enemy of the people by his successor, M. Vyshinsky, who accused "the despised band of Krylenko and the jurists Pachoukanis and Chaliapoy of sabotage of Soviet law."

According to Vyshinski, they "calumniated the Soviet regime by stating that in the Socialist system the individual was sacrificed to collectivity, by preaching that the Soviet regime should follow the Capitalist methods in international law, and by confusing civil law with administrative law."

Krylenko was dismissed in January last year for having a passion for mountain-climbing and chess, thus neglecting his duties. It took six months to find' out that his seeming negligence was a mask behind which he conspired with Trotskyists against the state—Havas, along Gordon Road. One of the five men, who purposely stayed behind, then took a public rickshaw and ai dered the private rickshaw coolie to eave the scene with his vehicle. s the proprietor offered no resistance at the time of the abduction

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