Message of the GPU of Ukraine to the leadership of the OGPU No. 50367 about the unrest in the Pluzhany district of the Shepetovsky district. February 26, 1930

Archive: CA FSB RF. F. 2. Op. 8. D. 232. L. 72. Certified copy.

№ 66

Deputy prev. OGPU Comrade Yagoda, early. SOU OGPU Comrade Evdokimov

In addition to our No. 49731 54 we inform you that the unrest provoked by the kulaks and churchmen, which began in the Pluzhany district of the Shepetovsky district, also covered a number of border villages - Radishche, Shimkovka and others. 

On February 24, in the area of ​​the Kunyevskaya commandant’s office, on the basis of dissatisfaction with the activities of the village council, which was trying to check church property, 400 people gathered, most of them women, shouting “We don’t need collectives, let’s go to Poland!” headed for the border, beating the authorized sowing campaign along the way. Three versts from the border, the crowd, reduced to 120 [persons], was met by the commandant of the border station. After the commandant's explanations, the crowd returned. 

On February 25, a crowd of 400 people went to the border in order to ask for the protection of the Poles. The movement of the crowd was detained 400 meters from the border in the area with. Overgrown. 

In several villages there were attempts to disarm the guards of the grain warehouses. 

In Shimkovtsy, a participant in the attack on a warehouse was killed, a woman was killed with a provocative shot, and a peasant was killed in Myakoty while trying to take away a rifle. 

In the Antoninsky district, an authorized sowing campaign was mortally wounded, and rural activists were beaten in several villages. The unrest spread to the neighboring Izyaslav and Slavuta districts of the Shepetovsky district. After carrying out explanatory work in these areas, there was some calm. 

There has been a breakaway of the poor and middle peasants from the leaders. The unrest spread to the neighboring Izyaslav and Slavuta districts of the Shepetovsky district. After carrying out explanatory work in these areas, there was some calm. 

The reasons for the movement are gross distortions of local authorities, insufficient preparation in individual villages for collectivization at an accelerated pace of the latter, socialization of inventory, sowing material within two days by decision of a meeting that did not have a quorum, searches by Komsomol members of yards, confiscation of salvage materials without payment, improper closing of churches. The necessary directives have been given for Shepetovsky and adjacent districts. A group of responsible party workers has been abandoned for political work.

Deputy deputies of the GPU of Ukraine Carlson, Leplevsky

[Head] of the Operational Headquarters of the GPU of Ukraine Abstract

54  In the note of the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR No. 49731 dated February 24, 1930, the OGPU reported on mass unrest of the population on the basis of the collection of sowing materials in the village of Nemechintsy, Felshtinsky district, Proskurovsky district. On February 22, a crowd of up to 200 people. beat the policemen and moved in the direction of the border. The next day, by evening, she was dispersed without the use of weapons, and the organizers of the performance were arrested.

The document contained information from the Shepetivka Department of the GPU about the unrest of the population in 13 villages 20 km west of Shepetovka in the Pluzhany border region on February 23. 

The speeches of the peasants contained demands for the return of socialized implements and seeds, as well as for the liquidation of collective farms. At the same time, mainly from women from the poor and middle peasants, attempts were made to disarm the police and guards, to seize equipment and seed grain. According to the admission of the department of the GPU, the unjustified actions of local authorities and perversions in the organization of collective farms, and an incorrect policy towards the church became the causes of the unrest.