ABSTRACT
Ian Rokotov and Vladik Faibishenko led a parasitic type of life and enriched themselves through the benefits created by the working people. Considering that Rokotov and Faibishenko had committed a grave state crime, the Russian Republic Supreme Court, on the basis of Article 25 of the Law on State Crimes, sentenced Rokotov and Faibishenko to death by shooting with confiscation of all their valuables and property. Meanwhile, it seemed that a tragic denouement was about to conclude the case of Rokotov and his colleagues. The trial of Ian Rokotov dealt a blow to the very idea of restoring legality. Its “Leninist norms” turned out to be not law, but force over law. And the instrument was the legislature. The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet became the obedient executor of the assignments of the repressive apparat, the bureaucratic formulator of the lawlessness of the investigative organs.
