The Soviet ad hoc Troikas (Triplets), Their Meetings and Varieties

Abstract

The present article deals with the phenomenon of the Soviet government - the ad hoc commissions and the terror of the time. Despite the constitutional legislative norm of the time of the Soviet Union where the branches of government and their functions were defined in a more or less clear way, the so-called “Judicial” Bodies - dvoikas and troikas - were introduced beyond the supreme law in the form of commissions and deliberative bodies based on an act of a much lower level of normative hierarchy. In many cases, the decision made by the commissions was radical and easy to reach; therefore it was not associated with difficulties in terms of execution. Unfortunately, it should be noted that despite the heavy sanction of the decision, the commission bore to relation to the judicial authority and their “judgment” was one of repression and terror, not justice. The decisions made by the high-ranking government officials, supposedly in a commission manner, were final and not subject to appeal that was unfair and illegal itself.