Trotskyists - Transcripts from the Soviet Archives
"Совершенно секретно"
Лубянка--Сталину о положении в стране
(1922-1934 гг.)
"Top secret" Lubyanka to Stalin about the situation in the country (1922-1934)
By Soviet Union. United State Political Administration,
Trotskyists
The materials at our disposal on the active Trotskyist
groupings liquidated over the past year and currently existing show that counter-revolutionary
Trotskyist activities were carried out in the direction of:
1. Putting together and organizing the remnants of the
defeated counter-revolutionary Trotskyist underground.
2. Attempts to establish underground technology and
release illegal materials to propagate Trotskyist views.
3. Disguised penetration into the ranks of the CPSU (b) in order to disintegrate the ranks of the party and create conditions conducive to Trotskyist work.
4. The increase activity of Trotskyist groups and
individuals in connection with the discussion of the letter from Comrade Stalin,
manifested in speeches at open party, trade union meetings and circles of party
education.
5. Everyday Anti-Soviet agitation with the use of
difficulties and shortcomings in the supply of workers and individual
distortions in the field of tariffication, up to attempts to organize
collective performances and bagpipes in this regard at industrial
enterprises. The main core of active Trotskyists were and still are those
who returned from political isolation and exile.
Of the total mass of Trotskyists who were in exile and
imprisoned in political isolation cells, 1,421 people returned back throughout
the Soviet Union. Of the total number of returnees, about 1,000 people
settled in Moscow. Of the Trotskyists who returned to Moscow, 645 people
were reinstated in the party. The latest data, of a top secret order,
indicate that the increased Trotskyist activity at this time is explained by
the organized preparations for the 17th Party Conference.
Counter-revolutionary Trotskyist groups
Trotskyist group of Gorodetsky (Moscow). In
December 1930, Gorodetsky's Trotskyist group was liquidated in Moscow, the
group consisted of 30 people. The group prepared a number of anti-party
documents for publication and arranged the distribution of directive letters
from Trotsky, Rakovsky and other leaders. She also restored ties with the
remnants of Trotskyist groups at enterprises, established ties with the
Leningrad, Kharkov and Rostov Trotskyists.
Trotskyist group Bezgin (Moscow)
In December 1930, the active counter-revolutionary
group of Bezgin was also liquidated, formed from the number of Trotskyists who
had returned from isolation wards and exiles.
The group organized equipment to issue leaflets and
Trotskyist documents and began recruiting new individuals from among those who
had left the opposition. The group pursued an exceptional tactic of
double-dealing, setting itself the task of joining the party, corrupting it
from within and creating a new Bolshevik party, believing that the "VKP
(b) is a corpse." The new party, according to the group, was supposed
to lead the workers' discontent, based on the difficulties of the current
situation.
Trotskyist group of Nikolaev-Pelevin (Moscow)
At the end of 1930, the Trotskyists Nikolayev, Ponomarev, Manchev, Pelevin and the Decist Pshenichnikov, who had returned from exile, organized a counter-revolutionary Trotskyist group, which set itself the task of establishing Trotskyist work among the workers of TsAGI and restoring ties with Trotskyist groups in the industrial regions near Moscow (Noginsk).
The group met in the apartments of its members and
discussed plans for its counter-revolutionary activities. During the
collective agreement campaign, the group decided not to speak, but to make
proposals:
a) on strengthening the supply of the factory
canteen; b) on improving the work of plant security; c) to increase
wages by 50%. It was also decided to organize a mutual assistance fund.
The group paid special attention to obtaining and
distributing Trotskyist literature. Some members of the group (Pelevin)
expressed clearly terrorist sentiments against the party leadership and, in
particular, comrade. Stalin. “About two months ago, Pelevin and I,
being in his yard at Stromstroy, talked about the general political situation
in the country. Pelevin and I came to the conclusion that a fight is
inevitable, up to and including the use of terror. I said that Stalin is
the culprit for everything that is happening. Pelevin confirmed this and
said that first of all it is necessary to kill Stalin ”(Elkin's testimony).
The group was liquidated on December 18, 1930.
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