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Military court of the Soviet Union
The
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union
(
Russian
: Военная коллегия Верховного суда СССР,
Voennaya kollegiya Verkhovnogo suda SSSR
) was created in 1924 by the
Supreme Court of the Soviet Union
as a court for the
higher military
and
political personnel
of the
Red Army
and
Fleet
.
[1]
In addition it was an immediate supervisor of
military tribunals
and the supreme authority of military
appeals
.
During 1926?1948 the Chairman of the Collegium was
Vasiliy Ulrikh
.
[2]
The role of the Military Collegium drastically changed after June 1934, when it was assigned the duty to consider cases that fell under
Article 58
, counter-revolutionary activity.
During the
Great Purge
of 1937?1938 the Military Collegium tried relatively prominent figures, usually based on the lists approved personally by
Joseph Stalin
,
[3]
the majority of Article 58 cases having been processed
extrajudicially
by
NKVD troikas
. In particular, the Military Collegium conducted the major Soviet
show trials
.
[4]
The Collegium was also involved in
a subsequent trial
of
Polish General
Leopold Okulicki
, the last commander of the Polish
Home Army
, and
Jan Stanisław Jankowski
,
Government Delegate for Poland
.
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