Six glum-looking men, formally described as "bloodthirsty beasts" by the Soviet court which condemned them, were placed before a Moscow firing squad last week, shot.
They had bootlegged meat, fowl, milk, cheese, potatoes, eggs. To obtain these edibles they had forged government food cards wholesale. Guilty of "private trading," they had incurred what Soviet citizens call "the highest measure of social defense": execution.
Meanwhile one Aaron Kopman, a U. S. citizen sentenced to a Soviet forced-labor camp for selling things in Russia, but released through the efforts of the British Diplomatic Mission...
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