The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But all that wasn’t enough. So here’s what they thought up: “Many defendants sitting here would not deserve to be indicted in the given case, were it not for the charge of having planned terrorist acts” Allegedly, when the amnesty of 1919 had been published, “none of the leaders of Soviet Justice had imagined” that the SR’s had also planned to use terrorism against the leaders of the Soviet state!