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The Amnesty of 1953 was the largest amnesty in the history of the Soviet Union (and the whole history of Russia) in terms of the number of the released persons. It was declared by the March 27, 1953 Decree of the
Amnesty of 1953: the biggest in Russian history
'' Global News'', February 18, 2020 Later it has become known as Beria's amnesty, because it was initiated by March 26, 1953 Lavrenty Beria's draft. Between 1.2 million and 1.35 millionЭли, Марк, Слух о бандитском разгуле в 1953–1954 гг. / М. Эли // Слухи в России XIX-XX веков. Неофициальная коммуникация и "крутые повороты" российской истории : сб. ст. / Юж. – Урал. гос. ун-т, Фак. права и финансов, Центр культ. – ист. исслед., Герман. ист. ин-т в Москве, Челяб. отд-ние Рос. о-ва интеллектуал. истории ; ед. кол. : И. В. Нарский и др. – Челябинск, 2011. – С. 146–167. – ISBN 978-5-88711-087-7 persons were freed. The amnesty was applied to: *all persons with imprisonment term up to 5 years * all persons convicted for malfeasance and economic crimes, as well as for some minor military crimes * all women with children of age up to 10 years, all pregnant women, all children of age up to 18 years * all men older than 55 and women older than 50 * all persons with grave uncurable diseases The amnesty was not applied to people with term over 5 years convicted for counter-revolutionary crimes, major theft of socialist property, banditism, and murder. Other acts of the amnesty included the reduction of imprisonment terms, dismissing unfinished criminal proceedings which fit the above criteria, etc. The amnesty was followed with the considerable rise of criminal activities, therefore it was partially rolled back and many criminal amnestees were imprisoned again.Спицын, Е.Ю. Хрущёвская слякоть. — Монография. — Москва: Концептуал, 2020. — С. 32—36. — 592 с. — ISBN 978-5-907172-63-0.
The Amnesty of 1953 was the largest amnesty in the history of the Soviet Union (and the whole history of Russia) in terms of the number of the released persons. It was declared by the March 27, 1953 Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Верховный Совет Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, r=Verkhovnyy Sovet Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respubl ...
"About the Amnesty". Since it was signed by Kliment Voroshilov, it was initially known as the Voroshilov's amnesty.Daniel JohnsonAmnesty of 1953: the biggest in Russian history
'' Global News'', February 18, 2020 Later it has become known as Beria's amnesty, because it was initiated by March 26, 1953 Lavrenty Beria's draft. Between 1.2 million and 1.35 millionЭли, Марк, Слух о бандитском разгуле в 1953–1954 гг. / М. Эли // Слухи в России XIX-XX веков. Неофициальная коммуникация и "крутые повороты" российской истории : сб. ст. / Юж. – Урал. гос. ун-т, Фак. права и финансов, Центр культ. – ист. исслед., Герман. ист. ин-т в Москве, Челяб. отд-ние Рос. о-ва интеллектуал. истории ; ед. кол. : И. В. Нарский и др. – Челябинск, 2011. – С. 146–167. – ISBN 978-5-88711-087-7 persons were freed. The amnesty was applied to: *all persons with imprisonment term up to 5 years * all persons convicted for malfeasance and economic crimes, as well as for some minor military crimes * all women with children of age up to 10 years, all pregnant women, all children of age up to 18 years * all men older than 55 and women older than 50 * all persons with grave uncurable diseases The amnesty was not applied to people with term over 5 years convicted for counter-revolutionary crimes, major theft of socialist property, banditism, and murder. Other acts of the amnesty included the reduction of imprisonment terms, dismissing unfinished criminal proceedings which fit the above criteria, etc. The amnesty was followed with the considerable rise of criminal activities, therefore it was partially rolled back and many criminal amnestees were imprisoned again.Спицын, Е.Ю. Хрущёвская слякоть. — Монография. — Москва: Концептуал, 2020. — С. 32—36. — 592 с. — ISBN 978-5-907172-63-0.
See also
*''The Cold Summer of 1953
''The Cold Summer of 1953'' (russian: Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего…, Kholodnoe leto pyatdesyat tretego) is a 1988 Soviet crime film directed by Aleksandr Proshkin. It was the last film of the Soviet actor Anatoly ...
'', a 1988 Soviet crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
with the plot based on the post-amnesty crime rise
References
{{reflist Gulag Law of the Soviet Union 1953 in the Soviet Union Lavrentiy Beria