"In the absence of a criminal code, a court might give a reprimand for a punch in the nose in Ryazan, while the sentence in Tula might be shooting."
— Nikolai Krylenko

January 1, 1970

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RevolutionariesPoliticians from RussiaPoliticians from the Soviet UnionJustice ministersMinisters of Russia and the Soviet Union
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Krylenko on the importance of having a universal criminal code, quoted in Yuri Feofanov & ‎Donald D. Barry, Politics and Justice in Russia: Major Trials of the Post-Stalin Era