Part 2
The carver was considered in a special order (“dilated” court), so the decision was made on the second day of the process:
The “durable” court in Poland is something like our field vessels. Its peculiarity is that he knows two punishments: the death penalty and an indefinite prison. There is no appeal on its solutions. In the case of disagreement between the judges (three of them), the case is referred for a review to an ordinary court: the “durable” court must bear the sentence unanimously. Civil claims in this court cannot be presented. The transfer of the Covered case to the “durable” the court thereby excluded the possibility of speaking by civil plaintiffs of representatives of the Bolsheviks and, moreover, their participation in the investigation, to which, as the newspapers wrote, the authorities have already agreed. But above the carpel there was a threat of death …
There was a hum of voices and the noise of moving chairs in the hall when the defendant was introduced by two city with guns. The boy, without signs of a mustache, is weak, smart, with a shy smile, in a cheap suit, carefully combed with a parting, sat down, I don’t know where to put his hands.
Chairman. – The defendant, what nationality are you?
Corover. – Russian.
Chairman. – Whose subject are you?
Corover. – Don’t know.
Chairman. – And the father, whose subject?
Corover. – Don’t know
… After a lunch break, the accused gave his testimony:
“I personally saw the chaos that began after the Bolshevik coup, saw all the outrages and atrocities of Bolshevism. Before my eyes, the Bolsheviks threw the driver at the steam engine for the train for refusing to lead trains. Instinctively, I have already felt over the past two years that you need to act, that you need to fight with a gang of international villains. I wanted to go to Soviet Russia to fight the Bolsheviks there. This was my first thought. But I was very prevented from fulfilling her material circumstances, and in addition, I could not illegally get through the border. Then I decided to go legally. I felt that something needed to be done, I need to help my homeland. When I did not receive a visa at the Soviet embassy in Warsaw, I decided to kill Voikov as a representative of the gang that ruined my homeland and destroyed so many lives ”(“ Latest News ”(Paris), June 19, 1927)
The process ended on June 16, the carver was sentenced to life imprisonment, but the court decided to appeal to the Polish president with a request to mitigate the sentence of up to 15 years in prison.
In the USSR, the verdict caused a storm of indignation – Soviet journalists pointed out not only its softness, but also the haste of the decision:
“As you know, the legal proceedings of the Extraordinary Court implies a significantly simplified investigative process, not only not found out, but also deliberately obscuring all the threads of the crime. Obviously, this was the purpose of transferring the case to the Extraordinary Court. Thanks to such a procedure, it was possible to eliminate “extra” and “uncomfortable” issues that could lead the investigation to traces of crimes leading to such instances as in Poland and not its limits, which would expose which would be an unprofitable Polish government. The speed of legal proceedings was necessary for the Polish government not to satisfy the legitimate requirements of the USSR government, but for the speedy and most faithful concealment of all the threads of the crime ”(Izvestia, June 17, 1927)
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