This topic is fine....
But what about the firestorm that followed....
What about Lenin, Stalin, Dzherinsky, Beria, Sverdlov, Trotsky, my God, the 75 millions that perished during that time....is there any indictment big enough for them? And why have they not been intellectually indicted herewith?
The question begs to be asked....and to be answered.
Where is their "mock trial" on this forum?
And if there is a mock trial, could we please conduct it under prevailing Russian rules of law?
Why is there a mock trial of the Emperor under American law? He would not have been of the jurisdiction of American law, not even of the Hague Convention.
So while it may be a laudable intellectual exercise, would it not be a more laudable intellectual excercise to conduct it under the applicable laws of the Russian Civil and Criminal Code? And which Russian Civil and Criminal Code? The Imperial Code and Rescripts of 1917? The Constitution of the ex-USSR and its Criminal Code? The current Russian Civil and Criminal Code?
I would very much like to hear the thoughts of all of those who participated in this mock trial on these questions.
First, on the question of appropriate jurisdiction, intellectually or not.
Second, on the matter of which applicable national criminal code.
Third, on the matter considering the legal principle that heads of state may not be indicated or sued, a principle that is applied, currently, in the United States and in Great Britain. In Imperial Russia, the monarch could not be object of an indictment.
If the monarch were a criminal to such a degree, either three things would have happened, and perhaps all of them :
1. he would have been overthrown;
2. he would have forfitted his life in the coup;
3. if he did not forfit his life, he would exiled to a remote Siberian monastery.
Comments please. Thanks.
