On June 6, 1928, the Workers-Peasants’ Government of the RSFSR issues the resolution, 'On Banning the Draw of Liquors in Lotteries'.

The closure of gaming houses and the gambling ban were pushed by the penal policy course shaped by the Soviet state, providing for overall reinforcement of criminal sanctions in the country and the modification of the state's penitentiary policy upon the whole. And, regardless of the rather modest figures in the gaming sector (for example, only 4 small gaming houses operated in Leningrad at that time), the key prohibitive provisions in the report were approved.Īll this led to a ban on the opening of gambling houses in worker districts, it was followed by a ban on gambling in the entire districts, and later, on May 8, 1928, by the resolution of the USSR SPC, all Soviet Republics were instructed, the reasons not being explained, 'to take measures on the immediate closure of any facilities for card games, roulette, lotto and other kinds of gambling'. The true spirit of the working proletariat. The main idea voiced through the report was that its incompatibility of an idle, bourgeois pastime with ( December 2009)Īt the end of 1927, the People’s Commissar of the Interior presented a report devoted to gambling and the gaming business existing at that time to the RSFSR SPC.

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