Part 3 of more, see my profile for previous. This is section 2 and 3 of the Article. I'll add bold text for emphasis here and there.

"Section 2 listed armed rebellion, seizure of power in the capital or in the provinces especially for the purpose of severing any part of the U.S.S.R. through the use of force. For this the penalties ranged up to and included execution (as in every succeeding section).

This was expanded to mean something which could not be explicitly stated in the article itself but which revolutionary sense of justice could be counted on to suggest: it applied to every attempt of any national republic to act upon its right to leave the U.S.S.R. After all, the word "force" is not defined in terms of whom it applies to. Even when the entire population of the republic wants to secede, if Moscow is opposed, the attempted secession will be 'forcible.' Thus, all Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and Turkestan nationalists very easily recieved their tens and twenty-fives under this section.

Section 3 was 'assisting in any way or by any means a foreign state at war with the U.S.S.R.' ****This section made it possible to condemn any citizen who had been in occupied territory **** --whether he had nailed on the heel of a German soldier's shoe or sold him a bunch of radishes. And it could be applied to any citizens who had helped lift the fighting spirit of an enemy soldier by dancing and spending the night with him. Not everyone was actually sentenced under this section-- because of the huge numbers who had been in occupied territory. But everyone who had been in occupied territory could have been sentenced under it."