Substantive Grounds and Contemporary Meaning of the Khabarovsk Trials

The article discusses the question of the modern significance of the sources of law that served as the basis for the sentencing at the Khabarovsk trial; it is proved that the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, 1943 was not excluded from the list of existing sources of law, but its potentially not excluded application for assessing criminal acts that took place during the Great Patriotic War it should be correlated with the requirements of the current criminal law on responsibility for crimes against humanity and on the retroactive force of the criminal law.