 Also, each of the 85 convicts were to pay 1,000 lei representing legal charges.The trial attracted Soviet propaganda and international attention, with Romain Rolland, Maxim Gorky, Paul Langevin, Theodore Dreiser, and Albert Einstein, among others, speaking out on behalf of the defendants, while Henri Barbusse even traveled to Romania to witness the proceedings.In the national newspapers the subject was presented in two different forms, both being critic to the uprising, except for the communist press.