Stalin, on the arrests of the leadership of the Nakhichevan ASSR. September 26, 1937

Cipher telegram I.V. Stalin in the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Azerbaijan on the arrests of the leadership of the Nakhichevan ASSR. September 26, 1937

A source: 

Lubyanka. Stalin and the Main Department of State Security of the NKVD. Stalin's archive. Documents of the supreme bodies of party and state power. 1937-1938. - M .: MFD, 2004, p. 380.

Archive: 

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11.D. 57.L. 99. Original. Typescript.

September 26, 1937

No. 1566 / sh

Baku. Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan BAGIROV

The Central Committee of the CPSU (b) authorizes the arrest of Usein Rakhmanov and Hasan Rakhmanov. We ask you to thoroughly cleanse the Nakhichevan republic, polluted by Hasan Rakhmanov, of all evil spirits. Keep in mind that Nakhrespublika is the most dangerous point in the entire Transcaucasia. A real Bolshevik proven leadership must be installed there. Yusuf Kasimov will be directed to you.

Stalin