Soviet Gallows

A lawyer writing from the Soviet Union in 1923 lays out for his foreign readers what a sausage factory the Bolshevik courts were:

"Then the blood began to flow like a river. People were condemned to death every day. People were shot for all kinds of offenses. A woman was sentenced to death for selling a food card. Vikstein was shot because, in the opinion of the prosecutor, he had intended to bribe him.