Sentence examples for soviet law from inspiring English sources
Nikolai Krylenko, the first People's Commissar of Justice, said in January 1933 that Soviet law waxed indignant about the leniency of some Soviet officials who objected to the infamous "five ears law": We are sometimes up against a flat refusal to apply this law rigidly.
(For discussion of the legal system during the Soviet period, see Soviet law).
It was, he came to realize, the administration of Soviet law that was monstrous.
This was legal under a 1927 Soviet law that made defection punishable by execution.
He concluded that "on paper, Soviet law was very well drafted, grounded in sound principles".
The eight were reportedly accused of speculation in the manufacture and sale of foodstuffs — crimes under Soviet law.
It claimed that its laws took precedence over Soviet laws.
In June 1990 the Congress of the Russian republic proclaimed that Russian laws took precedence over Soviet laws, and the following year Boris Yeltsin became the republic's first democratically elected president.
"If until now Crimea had been joined to Ukraine because of Soviet laws that were taken without asking the people, then now the people have decided to rectify this error".
In the 1970s and 1980s it was not even allowed to spy on the party bosses and had to act within Soviet laws, however inhuman.The KGB provided a crucial service of surveillance and suppression; it was a state within a state.
According to the Soviet laws, a monument made out of bronze had to be erected in the birthplace of a recipient of two orders of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
