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Capital Punishment for Economic Crimes

Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1961

Nikita Sergeyevich KhruschevMay 1961

Government / Government of Russia

Soviet law expands capital punishment to specified major economic crimes.

Names involved

Nikita Sergeyevich Khruschev

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