Talk:Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)
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If it was the RSFSR penal code, then what legal grounds were there for arrests in other R's, from the Baltics to Uzbekistan? --Humus sapiens|Talk 01:25, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Their penal codes had articles of similar content. A quick Google search turns up article 59 in Latvian SSR code and article 66 in Belarussian SSR code. Andris 17:23, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
- It would be good if you added something along these lines into the article. Mikkalai 19:59, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- OK, I added a sentence. I can't find text of any of them on the web, though, just mentions about people convicted, with notes about similarity to article 58 in RSFSR. Andris 04:22, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
- It would be good if you added something along these lines into the article. Mikkalai 19:59, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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- Interestingly, I remember having read that up to a certain time RSFSR penal code was used in Estonian SSR' as well. This was definitely the case with repressions during the first Soviet occupation 1940-41, ESSR code was composed later (on the basis of RSFSR code). Interesting legality the Soviets had... --Constanz - Talk 07:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
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In Soviet Union there was ONE penal code and article 58 is article of SOVIET penal code, not RSFSR penal code. Francesco
- No, there was RSFSR code during Stalin's times, also used in other countries under soviet rule. (Solzhenitsyn writes this way)--Constanz - Talk 07:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Article 58 was split when the law was revised in the early 1960s (see Anti-Soviet agitation). §58-10 became §70 of the new RSFSR Criminal Code. This §70 defined a maximum of 7 years of imprisonment followed by at most five years of internal exile. The version from the Ukrainian Criminal Code is available online; the RSFSR version was identical (I haven't found it online, but it is reprinted (in translation) in Loeber, D.A.: Urheberrecht in der Sowjetunion: Einführung und Quellen, 2nd ed.; Alfred Metzner Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981. No ISBN. In German). Also in the 1960s, a new article 190(1) on the "dissemination of known falsehoods that defame the Soviet political and social system" was introduced in the RSFSR Criminal Code; it specified a maximum punishment of imprisonment for up to three years, or penal labour of up to one year, or a fine of up to 100 rubles. (Source: Loeber; Ukrainian version also mentioned at the extlk given above.) Lupo 14:54, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Also see Nikiforov, B. S.: Fundamental Principles of Soviet Criminal Law, in The Modern Law Review 23(1), pp. 31-42; January 1960. [1] states that the RSFSR §70 and the UkrSSR §62 were implementations of an identical §7 of the Union-wide "Fundamentals of Criminal Law" of 1958. Lupo 08:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
