March 28, 1953 (, Kimi February 14), the Soviet Union issued amnesty. March

1953, the Soviet government promulgated the amnesty decree, the release of all the short sentence prisoners, and ordered the Soviet Ministry of Justice to re-examine the files of all prisoners. Only those who are guilty of counter-revolutionary crimes, theft, murder, crime and an extremely long period of prisoners still being imprisoned.
Moscow said in a statement: This is due to the Soviet social and state system to continuously consolidate civic vigilance improve, before the crime rate decreased. Soon began to re-examine the work of the prisoners file. (L $ j��.c��)