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Nikitchenko was one of the three main drafters of the London Charter.

He was also the Soviet Union's judge at the Nuremberg trials, and was President for the session at Berlin.

Nikitchenko's prejudices were evident from the outset.

Before the Tribunal convened, Nikitchenko explained the Soviet perspective of the trials :" We are dealing here with the chief war criminals who have already been convicted and whose conviction has been already announced by both the Moscow and Crimea declarations by the heads of the governments ....

The whole idea is to secure quick and just punishment for the crime.