Contemporary Attempts to Distort the Legal Results of the Great Victory over Nazi Germany
https://doi.org/10.24833/0869-0049-2010-3-49-75
Abstract
The article is devoted to a number of contemporary published distortions of the legal consequences of the Great Victory of the Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain, France and other allied countries over Nazi Germany.
The following objects of such a distortion are legally assessed in the article:
1) Treaty on non-assault between the USSR and Germany of 1939 (compared with the Munich Pact of 1938 – the Agreement between Britain, France, Germany and Italy);
2) Legal environment of left movements in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 1940s and decisions of the parliaments of these Baltic states to become parties of the Treaty on Formation of the USSR;
3) Contemporary legal values of Yalta and Potsdam Summit Conferences;
4) International Law characteristics of those citizens of the Baltic States who served in SS troops of the Nazi Germany.
Special attention is drawn to the UN General Assembly resolution of 21 November 1947, according to which the International Law Commission was directed to formulate the Principles of International Law recognized in the Charter of the Nurnberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal. Since the Nurnberg principles have been unanimously affirmed by the GA in resolution of 11 December 1946, they constitute principles of contemporary international law.
In this context the article provides some legal advice addressed to Law Enforcement Agencies of Great Britain, Russia and the USA as parties to the key international legal documents in which the Nurnberg principles are reflected.
About the Authors
A. N. Vylegzhanin
Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexander N. Vylegzhanin – Doctor of Laws, professor;
member of the Expert Council of the Council of Federation
G. V. Ignatenko
Ural State Law Academy; honoured science worker of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Gennadiy V. Ignatenko – Doctor of Laws, professor of the Chair of State law of foreign countries and International law
A. U. Skuratova
MGIMO-University (MFA) Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexandra U. Skuratova – Ph.D. in Law, assistant professor of the Chair of International law
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Vylegzhanin A.N., Ignatenko G.V., Skuratova A.U. Contemporary Attempts to Distort the Legal Results of the Great Victory over Nazi Germany. Moscow Journal of International Law. 2010;(3):49-75. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/0869-0049-2010-3-49-75
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