Was it comparable to western systems in any way (even if it wasn’t implemented in practice).
Obviously, the Soviets cracked down pretty hard on political opponents, but I’m more interested in “regular” crime (theft, murder, ...). I assume that they were interested in actually getting guilty people and avoiding innocent people, so how would a trial proceed? Did they keep any elements of tsarist Russia’s judicial system?
Was the USSR’s judicial system applied in Eastern Europe or did they keep similar systems to what they had pre-WW2?
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We always hear about purges, GULAGs and secret police, but what was the actual Soviet judicial system like? Were there juries or was it an inquisitional system? by u/kieslowskifan