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f. 671, op. 1, d. 273, ll. 3-4

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Отрывок из книги Н.И. Ежова "От фракционности к открытой контрреволюции".

<<l.3 >>

Чудовищным убийством товарища Кирова последышами зиновьевско-троцкистской контрреволюции с особой остротой поставлен вопрос о повышении революционной бдительности рабочего класса и его партии. Предательский выстрел прозвучал неожиданно из лагеря людей, формально связанных с партией. Прикрываясь личиной партийности и партийным билетом, классовый враг проникает в наши ряды, чтобы легче нанести удар лучшим представителям революционного пролетариата.

Разгромленная в открытой борьбе, потерявшая всякую надежду этим путем добиться каких-либо успехов, зиновьевская контр­революционная банда окончательно скатывается в болото белоэмигрантщины. Она избирает орудием своей борьбы против партии и советской власти рабочего класса - террор. То, что не могли сделать перебрасываемые из-за границы деникинские "молодчики" "РОВСа" ("Российский общевоинский союз") - осуществили зиновьевцы, вырвав из рядов Ленин­ской когорты одного из лучших ее представителей.

Зиновьевским последышам легче было осуществить это гнусное убийство. Никто не мог Трудно было предположить, что так глубоко зашло их политическое и моральное разложение. Никто не мог Трудно было предположить, что они докатились до такого подлого, не имеющего прецедента в истории революционной борьбы предательства.

<<l.4 >>

Нет исторических аналогий, с которыми можно было бы сопоставить это гнуснейшее преступление!

Нет слов, чтобы дать характеристику этому беспримерному предательству!

Фронт белогвардейской контрреволюции пополнился новым отрядом врагов рабочего класса. И непосредственные участники убийства товарища Кирова, и его вдохновители уже воспеты белогвардейской печатью, как лучшие поборники агенты борьбы с советской властью, уже занесены в святцы белогвардейских героев. Белогвардейцы всех мастей занесли в списки своих друзей зиновьевско-троцкистскую банду по праву. В бессильной бешеной злобе против успехов первого в мире пролетарского государства, громящего остатки капиталистических элементов, они не гнушаются никаким оружием, как и их друзья из белоэмигрантского лагеря. Клевета, предательство, обман, шантаж, убийство - вот единственные средства борьбы против советского государства, оставшиеся в их ар­сенале.

Своеобразие этого нового отряда белогвардейской контрре­волюции заключается в том, что он вырос из фракции, созданной сторонниками Зиновьева внутри нашей партии. На истории этой фракции как нельзя лучше подтвердились слова Ленина о фракционной борьбе внутри ВКП(б).

<<A. Getty: Beginning in 1935, N. I. Ezhov, who would become NKVD chief in 1936, began to draft a book on how factionalism and opposition inevitably led to counter-revolution.  He asked Stalin to edit the draft.  These are among the few corrections that Stalin made.  Among these, where Ezhov had written that previously "nobody could imagine" that oppositionists could become so corrupt and "nobody could imagine" that they could sink into such foul and unprecedented betrayal, Stalin changed "nobody could imagine" in both places to "it was hard to imagine."  See also RGASPI f. 671, op. 1, d. 273, ll. 35-38.

On Stalin and Ezhov, see J. Arch Getty and Oleg V Naumov. Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist".  (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008). >>

Translation

An excerpt from N.I. Yezhov’s book “From factionalism to open counterrevolution”.

<<l.3>>

With the monstrous murder of comrade Kirov, the followers of the Zinovievite-Trotskyist counterrevolution very sharply posed the question of raising the revolutionary vigilance of the working class and its party. The traitorous shot sounded suddenly from a camp of people with formal ties to the party. Hiding behind their party membership and membership cards, class enemies are sneaking into our ranks, in order to make it easier to deal a blow to the best representatives of the revolutionary proletariat.

Crushed in open struggle, having lost all hope to use that path to reach any sort of success, the Zinovievite counterrevolutionary gang is completely descending into the swamp of white emigration. It is choosing its weapon against the party and the soviet government the working class — terror. That which could not be done by the Denikin “youngsters” from the “ROVS” (“Russian Military Union”), who were thrown over from behind the border, was achieved by the Zinovievites, who tore one of the best representatives of the Leninist cohort out of its ranks.

It was easier for the Zinovievite followers to commit this horrific murder. No one could have It was hard to imagine that their political and moral decay would go this far. No one could have It was hard to imagine that they could have gone as far as such a despicable betrayal, which has had no precedent in the history of revolutionary struggle.

<<l.4  >>

There are no historical analogies with which this most disgusting crime can be compared!

There are no words to give a description of this unprecedented betrayal!

The front of the white guard counterrevolution grew with new ranks of enemies of the working class. And both the direct participants in the murder of comrade Kirov and those who inspired it have already been lauded by the white guard press as the best devotees agents of the struggle against the soviet government, they have already been canonized as the white guard’s heroes. White guardsmen of all shapes and colors have rightly put the Zinovievite-Trotskyist gang in their list of friends. In their powerless furious anger against the successes of the world’s first proletarian state, which is crushing the remaining capitalist elements, they are not shun any weapons, just like their friends from the white emigrant camp. Gossip, betrayal, blackmail, murder - those are the only means of struggle against the soviet government that remain in their arsenal.

The uniqueness of this new squadron of white-guard counterrevolution consists of the fact that it grew out of a faction created by those who sided with Zinoviev inside our own party. With the history of this faction, Lenin’s words regarding factional struggle inside the VKP(b) were proven to be truer than ever.

<<A. Getty: Beginning in 1935, N. I. Ezhov, who would become NKVD chief in 1936, began to draft a book on how factionalism and opposition inevitably led to counter-revolution.  He asked Stalin to edit the draft.  These are among the few corrections that Stalin made.  Among these, where Ezhov had written that previously "nobody could imagine" that oppositionists could become so corrupt and "nobody could imagine" that they could sink into such foul and unprecedented betrayal, Stalin changed "nobody could imagine" in both places to "it was hard to imagine."  See also RGASPI f. 671, op. 1, d. 273, ll. 35-38.

On Stalin and Ezhov, see J. Arch Getty and Oleg V Naumov. Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist".  (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008). >>

 

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