Criminal responsibility for release of low-grade consumer goods in the USSR
The article deals with the problems of criminal liability for the issue of substandard consumer goods in the USSR. On the basis of the legal documentation, materials of judicial statistics, periodicals the author explores the evolution of legislation and law enforcement practice, trying to answer the questions: whether consumers were protected from low-quality products in the Soviet Union; by what legal means the state tried to influence unscrupulous manufacturers; what the dynamics of the prosecution and the evolution of the penalties for the manufacturing defects was?