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Nikolai Krylenko
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“We are sometimes up against a flat refusal to apply this law rigidly. One People's Judge told me flatly that he could never bring himself to throw someone in jail for stealing four ears. What we're up against here is a deep prejudice, imbibed with their mother's milk... a mistaken belief that people should be tried in accordance not with the Party's political guidelines but with considerations of "higher justice".”
Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula "chess for the sake of chess", like the formula "art for art's sake". We must organize shockbrigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.”
Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So who are the bulk of our clients in these sorts of cases? Is it the working class? No! It's classless hoodlums. Classless hoodlums, either from the dregs of the society, or from the remains of the exploiters' class. They have no place to go. So they take to -- pederasty. Together with them, next to them, under this excuse, in stinky secretive bordellos another kind of activity takes place as well -- counter-revolutionary work.”
Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Krylenko on the law re-criminalizing homosexuality in 1936. Quoted in David Tuller, Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, University of Chicago Press, 1996
“After two decades of building socialism in the USSR there is no reason for anybody to be a homosexual.”
Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Krylenko on the law re-criminalizing homosexuality in 1936. Quoted in David Tuller, Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, University of Chicago Press, 1996
“The basic mistake in eyery case is made by those women who consider 'freedom of abortion' as one of their civil rights. We need new fighters - they built this life, we need people.”
Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On penalizing abortion in 1936. Quoted in Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936. Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 1993
“We will secure peace, over the corpses of the counterrevolutionary command staff if necessary.”
Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) first seen 1689 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Krylenko after being named commander-in-chief on the Russian Army in November 1917. Quoted in Brian Taylor, Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000
“In the absence of a criminal code, a court might give a reprimand for a punch in the nose in Ryazan, while the sentence in Tula might be shooting.”
Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source