The decree prescribed extreme punishment for theft from collective farms and state property. In conditions of hunger, people gathering grain could be prosecuted; implementation varied, but the law...
The decree imposed severe penalties, including death in some cases, for theft of collective or state property. During food scarcity it criminalized desperate survival strategies and intensified...
The decree shortened investigation and appeal procedures in cases of terrorism. It became a legal instrument in escalating political repression, although the full scale of the Great Terror came later.
The draft proposed universal suffrage and a reorganized legislature, and was presented as proof that socialism had transformed society. Public consultation took place under a one-party system in which...
