The Leipzig trial of 1925 (the case of German CHK) on the pages of the Soviet regional press

The article analyzes the coverage of the «German CHK» case, which was considered by the Supreme Court of Weimar Germany in 1925, in the local press. which was considered by the Supreme Court of Weimar Germany in 1925 in the local press of the USSR. The subject of the study is the materials of local newspapers' publications. Attention is paid to the style and tone of the materials placed in the regional press on the event in question. It is noted that the publications may have had discrepancies in the presentation of individual details and facts in the coverage. The author notes that the Soviet press during the period under review followed the process quite closely. This is especially noticeable when considering the publications in February–March 1925. The newspapers described in detail the details of the interrogations of the defendants, noting the particularly negative role of the police during the preliminary investigation and the judge presiding over the trial. The reader was led to believe that the trial was intended to divert the attention of the German and foreign public from political scandals in which representatives of the ruling parties were involved. As a result of the review, the author concludes that local periodicals actively contributed to the formation of the citizens of the USSR, by all possible means, both verbal and visual, a negative attitude to the policy of bourgeois parties, to the institutions of judicial power of Weimar Germany.