The Soviets Were Really Bad at Cross Examination

The soviets sent to nuremberg a chief prosecutor and assistant prosecutors who had to earn their political stripes in show trials. They were not expecting the defendants to really be offering a vigorous defence, right that would happen in a western style trial. So when the defendants denied the charges, or or disutrant circles around them, or made counter accusations t the soviet prosecutors were uncertain what to do. Moscow's told you the kind of questions that you can ask, and then to have to think on your feet and not even have all the information too. All the soViet prosecutors were given full information about the history of the war. There there i a disadvantage there as well