N.I. Ezhova to I.V. Stalin about the Trotskyist organization in Ukraine

Special message by N.I. Ezhova to I.V. Stalin about the Trotskyist organization in Ukraine. February 2, 1937

Archive: AP RF. F. 3. Op. 24. D. 278. L. 47. Original. Typescript.

February 2, 1937

№ 55563

Top secret

Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Comrade. STALIN

   I am sending you the protocols of the interrogations of E.M. dated January 11 and 14 of this year.

   MANYURIN-BROVARSKY shows about the wrecking work carried out by the Trotskyists, along with terrorist activities, in the Ukraine in the development of the cotton crop, as well as about the opposition to Academician LYSENKO for the vernalization of agricultural crops.

   According to GOLUB's participant, MANYURIN-BROVARSKY knows that "the international orientation common with the Ukrainian nationalists" towards Hitler was carried out by the Trotskyists in opposition to the international relations established by the Soviet Union with anti-fascist governments.

   Named in the testimony of MANYURIN-BROVARSKY former. the second secretary of the Odessa regional committee of the CP(b)U A.G. SOKOLOV, now working in the Kirov region, and GOLUB F.Ya., currently the second secretary of the Odessa regional committee of the CP(b)U, I consider it necessary to arrest [1] .

   I ask for your approval.

People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR N.I. Ezhov

[1] On the first page there is Stalin's resolution: "Talk to Malenkov and Andreev (organizational bureau) how did Sokolov's transfer to Vyatka happen?"