in the studio of the radio house on revolutsionalnaya 3, announcers lyubov botvinnik and vladimir yurievich getting ready to go on air. it was difficult to hide the excitement. having taken their usual places at the table, they scanned the text for the last time and checked the microphone. we were waiting for the command of the radio director. in a moment, the familiar station and the meat from the people 's commissar in the ussr minsk were already on the air important. on february 8, 1946, in belarus, with particular excitement, they were waiting for the speech at the trial in nuremberg of the chief prosecutor from the soviet union, lieutenant general of justice roman. rudenko, on that very day, at the morning meeting of the international military tribunal, his accusatory speech was made, and the destruction of cities and villages, the plunder of public and private property in the ussr its points were listened to everywhere by the inhabitants of the republic, the facts, the figures that sounded from the tribune of the process, shocked, long thought of crimes against peace and humanity. the