Memorandum from G.G. Yagoda to I.V. Stalin on the liquidation of the Trotskyist assets - Moscow, Leningrad and Ukraine. May 31, 1930
Archive: RGASPI. F. 17. On. 171, D. 158, L. 38-40. Script
May 31, 1930
No. 273032/8
Top secret
Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) comrade. Stalin
MEMORANDUM
In view of the recently intensified underground activity of the remnants of the Trotskyist organization, from May 21 to May 28 we carried out the liquidation of the Trotskyist activists in Moscow, Leningrad and the Ukraine.
In Moscow, 47 searches were carried out, as a result of which 38 people were arrested, including: members of the CPSU (b) - 4, members. Komsomol - 1, expelled from the party and the Komsomol - 29 and non-party - 4. Of the total number of arrested 18 people in the past were expelled from Moscow and after returning from exile resumed underground work. Among those arrested: 4 workers, 13 employees, 12 students and 9 people without specific occupation.
The following Trotskyist groups have been liquidated:
1. A group of students of KUNMZ, consisting of 8 people, ex. members of foreign communist parties. The group issued a leaflet calling for the creation of a new "Workers' Party".
2. Group 3. Vlasova and Reznik's group, who resumed their underground work after a break. Members of these groups have never been repressed before.
3. Groups whose members at different times submitted applications for withdrawal from the opposition with a maneuverable goal (Pauline Loveller's group, Mikhail Bordov's group, etc.).
As a result of searches, we seized:
4. At Shergov and Mezheritsky, who returned from exile, in the past active underground workers: the foreign "opposition bulletin" and Trotsky's article "A pitiful document" published abroad.
1) At Lemberskaya and Sorokina - (excluded from the CPSU (b)) - an appeal by Rakovsky and others to the party, in connection with the upcoming XVI parties, the congress.
2) Arefieva and Lemberskaya - Rakovsky's theses "The Current Moment" (March 1930).
3) Trotsky's directive letters from abroad were found from November 1929 to April 1930 at Vyaznikovtsev, Lemberskaya, Sorokina, Loveller, Dovzhik, Bolotnikov, Zankov and others.
4) At Berzetis E.E. - a letter from the decist Smirnov V.M., a decryption of the correspondence with a link and the registration of this correspondence.
Directive letters from Rakovsky and E. Solntsev, an article by Rakovsky - "Ultra-centrism and ultra-levism" were found in almost all those who were searched.
In addition, archives of illegal Trotskyist documents were confiscated from some members of Loveller's group, from students of KUNMZ and from Shtykhold (Each archive contains 150-200 documents).
Among the illegal documents seized from members of the Trotskyist group at KUNMZ, there are Zadvorny's theses about the need to organize a new party, intended for distribution.
Most of the documents found were reproduced by handwriting and typewriter.
In Leningrad, the leaders of the Moscow group of KUNMZ were arrested - teacher Zadvornov P.A. and Soloviev V.E.
The testimony of the members of the KUNMZ grouping confirms the fact of the illegal work of Zadvorny, Solovyov, Suslov, Bulygin and others, who conducted propaganda about the need to create a "Workers' Party" and the struggle for power.
In Kharkov, 21 people were arrested, including 5 members of the CP (b) U and the KSM. The Ukrainian center, equipment, regional leadership and group leaders at enterprises were liquidated.
Searches seized: about 12 poods of typographic type with equipment, 3 chapirographs, 2 typewriters, a large amount of Trotskyist literature and organizational correspondence.
In Kiev and Artemovsk, 10 searches were carried out and 12 people were arrested, who tried to launch a mass work.
Deputy Prev OGPU Yagoda
Beginning. SOOGPU Agranov
RGASPI. F. 17. On. 171, D. 158, L. 38-40. Script.
Typescript. Published: Politburo and Leon Trotsky. Collection of documents (1923-1940). Prague, 2013
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