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Soviet law of 7 August 1932 on the protection of state and collective-farm property

The "Spike Act": the law of 7 August 1932 that set death, or in mitigated cases at least ten years in prison, for taking state or collective-farm property.

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Dates
7 Aug 1932
Also known as
Spike Act, Law of Spikelets
Wikidata
Q2376791

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  • Soviet government 7 Aug 1932 Primary record 1

    The Law Library of Congress calls it a "Law of the Soviet Union".

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  1. 7 Aug 1932 Soviet law of 7 August 1932 on the protection of state and collective-farm property
  2. 7 Aug 1932 Soviet government signed into law Soviet law of 7 August 1932 on the protection of state and collective-farm property
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  1. Soviet Union: Legal Acts Regarding the 1932-33 Starvation in Ukraine, Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Directorate, Oct 2008. Primary record
    Law of the Soviet Union on Protection of Property that Belongs to State Enterprises, Collective Farms, and Cooperatives, and on Strengthening of Communal Socialist Property of August 7, 1932
    The law penalized these actions with capital punishment unless there were extenuating circumstances, when the penalty was decreased to imprisonment for a term of no less than ten years with confiscation of the violator’s property.
    Although there is no formal legal act adopted by the Soviet authorities that would prove the existence of an organized campaign aimed at the extinction of the Ukrainian people, documents issued by the Soviet Government in 1932–1933
    are generally recognized as legal background for those government actions that lead to mass death in Ukraine.
    in reality the law turned into an instrument for prosecuting those who gleaned harvested fields.
    All individuals twelve years and older were subject to prosecution
    as prescribed by a government directive of July 1932 that established grain procurement targets for Ukraine
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