Nikolaï Vassilievitch Krylenko est un révolutionnaire bolchevik qui joua un rôle important dans la révolution russe de 1917. Il fut membre du premier Conseil des commissaires du peuple, chargé des affaires militaires. Il devint ensuite procureur général de la république socialiste fédérative soviétique de Russie avant d'être finalement exécuté durant les purges staliniennes. Wikipedia
“We will secure peace, over the corpses of the counterrevolutionary command staff if necessary.”
Krylenko after being named commander-in-chief on the Russian Army in November 1917. Quoted in Brian Taylor, Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000
Krylenko on the law re-criminalizing homosexuality in 1936. Quoted in David Tuller, Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, University of Chicago Press, 1996
Krylenko criticizing the leniency of some Soviet officials who objected to the infamous "five ears law". Quoted in Edvard Radzinsky, Stalin: The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives, page 258.
On penalizing abortion in 1936. Quoted in Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936. Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 1993
Krylenko on promoting chess in the Soviet Union. Quoted in Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment
Krylenko on the importance of having a universal criminal code, quoted in Yuri Feofanov & Donald D. Barry, Politics and Justice in Russia: Major Trials of the Post-Stalin Era
Krylenko on the law re-criminalizing homosexuality in 1936. Quoted in David Tuller, Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, University of Chicago Press, 1996
