Using the example of state security, the author examines the historical origins of the term «sabotage», the conditions for its emergence and application in the work of the Soviet judicial system. The article presents an analysis of the peculiarities of the fight against sabotage during the Great Patriotic War and shows the effect of this struggle for increasing labor productivity in the industry and for improving state security. Based on the synchronic and retrospective methods, criminal legislation and law enforcement practices of the Soviet state security agencies in war conditions are investigated. Having examined the period's legislation concerning sabotage, the author comes to the conclusion that the state system in the conditions of the war crisis reasonably enhanced protection of economic facilities and management systems. The criteria for qualification of illegal actions in the economic sphere as counter-revolutionary sabotage are also considered. At the same time, an attempt is made to identify the relationship between the specific features of criminal law and theory in the USSR and decisions on rehabilitation within the existing legal framework.
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