The complete text of the indictment against the fourteen accused covers three full pages of to-day’s issue of the “Pravda”.
The role of three of the Jewish defendants is particularly stressed – of Teitelbaum, who was formerly connected with the Commissariat of Trade and travelled a great deal abroad and who is accused of having been the chief means of maintaining contact with the Mensheviks in Berlin; Berlatsky, who is a former official of the Gosbank and is charged with having used his position for disorganising Government finances; and Professor Rubin, who is charged with being the theoretician of this counter-revolutionary group and drawing up the programme of work for the Mensheviks living inside the Soviet Union.
A mysterious Jew named A. B. Stern is also repreatedly mentioned as the son of an influential Menshevist leader in the Soviet Union, but it is not made clear whether he is still in Russia, whether he is under arrest, or whether he is living or dead.
The famous German Socialists, Dr. Hilferding and Dr. Breitscheid, are mentioned as among those who financed Abramovich. Visits to America are said to have been used as a means of contact between the Menshevists in Russia and the Menshevists in Berlin.
Kommodov and Braude will act as the Counsel for the accused.
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