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Abstract
In recent years the Communist Party and the Soviet government have carried out important measures to improve the functioning of the bodies charged with conducting the struggle against violations of law. One such measure was that of April 1963 endowing agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs [MVD] with the right to engage in preliminary investigation. The measures taken to intensify the struggle against crime, to further strengthen socialist legality, and to enlarge the democratic foundations of Soviet criminal procedure facilitated growth in the role of the preliminary investigation in criminal procedure and enlarged the guarantees of comprehensive, complete, and objective investigation of crimes.