Руденко - патриарх советской прокуратуры. Главный обвинитель от СССР на Нюрнбергском процессе

Rudenko - Glavnyĭ obvinitelʹ ot SSSR na Niurnbergskom protsesse. Generalʹnyĭ prokuror SSSR s 1953 po 1981 god. Deiatelʹnostʹ Romana Rudenko na postu glavnogo strazha zakonnosti strany prodolzhalasʹ 27 let. Ni odin sovetskiĭ prokuror ne zanimal stolʹ dolgo ėtot post. Rudenko sumel perezhitʹ samye strashnye i surovye vremena. V otsenke ego raboty segodnia my mozhem bytʹ spokoĭnymi i bespristrastnymi. On byl geroem svoego vremeni. A vremia emu dostalosʹ tiazheloe. No vremena ne vybiraiut. V nikh, kak skazal poėt, zhivut i umiraiut.

Rudenko is the Chief Prosecutor from the USSR at the Nuremberg trial. The Prosecutor General of the USSR from 1953 to 1981. Roman Rudenko's activity as the chief guardian of the country's legality lasted for 27 years. No Soviet prosecutor has held this post for so long. Rudenko managed to survive the most terrible and harsh times. In assessing his work today, we can be calm and impartial. He was a hero of his time. And he had a hard time. But times do not choose. In them, as the poet said, they live and die.