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War crimes by Soviet armed forces against civilians and prisoners of war in the territories occupied by the USSR between 1939 and 1941 in regions including Western Ukraine, the Baltic states and Bessarabia in Romania, along with war crimes in 1944–1945
- A Call For A Special International Tribunal
- Soviet Jurists
- A Response to German Invasion
- Spread of Soviet Ideas on Crime of Aggression
- Postwar Justice
- Russia Today
The Soviets took up the question of Nazi criminality early in the war—prompted by the brutality of the Nazi assault and occupation in places such as Kharkov (Kharkiv) and Kiev (Kyiv). In April 1942 Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov published his “Third Note on German Atrocities,” citing evidence that the burning of villages and the massacre of ci...
But this is hardly the whole story. For even as the Soviet Union developed its own approach to wartime justice, a Soviet-Jewish lawyer, Aron Trainin, substantially influenced the international discussion about war crimes through his writings. Most significantly, Trainin argued that a state’s leaders could and should bear individual criminal respons...
In 1940, Vyshinsky became Deputy Foreign Minister. Two years later, when faced with the urgent matter of dealing with Nazi war crimes, Vyshinsky looked to Trainin. For Trainin, the ruthlessness of the Nazis toward civilians and the unprovoked invasion of sovereign nations seemed to require a reimagining of the law. He took up the question of crimin...
Soviet leaders publicized Trainin’s key ideas in radio broadcasts and news bulletins. Then in July 1944, they released Trainin’s report as a book, The Criminal Responsibility of the Hitlerites. Vyshinsky’s name again appeared as the editor. The timing here was everything. By late spring 1944, the Soviet Union had recaptured much of southern Russia ...
After the Allied victory in May 1945, when American and British leaders came around to the idea of a special international tribunal, Trainin was one of the two representatives that the Soviets sent to London to draw up the London Agreement and the Nuremberg Charter. He and Iona Nikitchenko (who would later serve as the Soviet judge on the IMT) nego...
What does any of this have to do with the call for a new Nuremberg Tribunal to hold Russia’s leaders responsible for the invasion of Ukraine? Does it matter that the Soviet Union helped create the Nuremberg model of justice? Do we really need to know that it was a Soviet lawyer who introduced the concept of “crimes against peace”? Absolutely. Putin...
Bibliography. War crimes in World War II. This is a list of war crimes committed during World War II . Allied powers. Crimes perpetrated by the Soviet Union. Crimes perpetrated by the United Kingdom. Crimes perpetrated by the United States. Crimes perpetrated by Canada. Crimes perpetrated by the Yugoslav Partisans. Axis powers.
Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide [1] which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Russia have been accused of committing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
DEFINING "WAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY" IN THE SOVIET UNION: Nazi arson of Soviet villages and the Soviet narrative on Jewish and non-Jewish Soviet war victims, 1941-1947. NATHALIE MOINE.
Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter analyses the attempts of three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — to prosecute offences against international law committed in their territories by the Soviet authorities during and after World War II.
10 set 2012 · Global. The Most Damning Evidence of a U.S. Coverup of Soviet War Crimes. On Monday, the U.S. National Archive released 1,000 declassified documents pertaining to the 1940 massacre of...
