Two of the six Jews standing their trial with eight others in the big “State treason trial” opened here yesterday, legally talked their lives away to-day, when they admitted under examination by Krylenko, who is conducting the prosecution, that they occupied Cost strategic positions in the counter-revolutionary Mensheylk organisation. Berlatsky, a slightly built man who was formerly Minister of Finance in the Far Eastern Soviet Republic, admitted that he had conferred with Dan and other Menshevists in Berlin in November 1925, and that he had brought the mandate to Sher, making him head of the Menshevist Organisation in the Soviet Union.
Ginsburg, another of the Jewish accused, stated that he had met the Menshevist leaders in Berlin in September 1927, and had put the finishing touches to the counter-revolutionary organisation.
Berlatsky and Ginsburg gave their evidence immediately after the two leaders of the conspiracy, Sher and Grohman. Ginspurg spoke slowly, as if weighing his admissions, while Berlatsky spoke rapidly and with nervous gestures.
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