The Supreme Soviet Presidium has decreed that Nazi criminals “are to be tried and punished no matter how much time has elapsed,” the official Tass agency reported today.
The decree served notice that the Soviet Union rejected any concept of a statute of limitations for Nazi criminals. It said the Soviet people “cannot permit the Fascist barbarians to go unpunished.”
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