Shvernik Commission
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Shvernik Commission (Shvernik's Commission,
.It was the second major commission of the kind. (The first one was the commission headed by
rehabilitate every accused with exception of Karl Radek and Genrikh Yagoda
, because Radek's materials required some further checking, and Yagoda was a criminal and one of the falsifiers of the trials (though most of the charges against him had to be dropped too, he wasn't a "spy", etc.). The commission stated:
Stalin committed a very grave crime against the Communist party, the socialist state, Soviet people and worldwide revolutionary movement... Together with Stalin, the responsibility for the abuse of law, mass unwarranted repressions and death of many thousands of wholly innocent people also lies on Molotov, Kaganovich, Malenkov...
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