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G. Dim[itrov]
RESOLUTION OF THE SECRETARIAT
1. Oblige the Cadres Department to
discontinue the existing practice of keeping on the USSR territory individuals
suspected of provocation and espionage, making an exception only in those cases
when the appropriate organs demand it.
2. Suggest that the Cadres Department
work out and implement a series of measures to send back to capitalist
countries all individuals who have not demonstrated in the past the necessary
Bolshevik firmness and loyalty to the party, first of all those suspected of
espionage and provocation.
3. The Cadres Department should take
measures to thoroughly improve the selection of students for the international
schools in order to decrease, to the maximum extent possible, the number of
those who are unable to return for work to their country.
4. Discontinue the practice of keeping in
the USSR those who, for different reasons, either at the time of admission or
graduation, had dropped out of the international schools. Take measures to
return to their countries all those individuals who had studied in the
international schools and had stayed on the USSR territory.
5. The Cadres Department, together with
the parties' representatives, should work out a series of measures to prepare
the reserves and to send back to their countries all comrades from among the
political émigrés who can be used for work in their countries. Plan similar measures to use the
political émigrés in their own country who find themselves
[currently] staying in the capitalist countries.
6. The Cadres Department is to assure
that the parties firmly follow the line of keeping in their countries those
comrades who had already served their term [in prison] and are not threatened
with extremely harsh repression.
Conduct a decisive struggle against
keeping in the USSR those party and Komsomol members who left their countries
without the special permission of the party's C[entral] C[ommittee], as
deserters from the battle-field of the class struggle. These individuals should
not be considered to be party members and no trust or help should be rendered
to them.
7. The Cadres Department, together with
the Propaganda Department, should work out a series of measures on the
systematic education of the political
émigrés and to shield them from the influence of alien
elements and demoralization.[i]
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Resolution of the Secretariat
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Andreev
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Cichowski 10/III-36
Palkina
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Blagoeva
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Golubeva [10/III-36]
Zonbert
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Gopner
RGASPI, f. 495, op. 18, d. 1073, ll. 121-123.
Original in Russian.
Typewritten.
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[i] Attached to the typewritten resolution was a sheet of paper signed by the Cadres Department staff members who, by their signatures, acknowledged having read the resolution. The illegible signatures are indicated by <…>.
At the end of this document was
typed:
“To whom to send:
1) CC of the parties,
2) Representatives of the parties,
3) Secretaries and their assistants,
4) Analysts [referenty] and the Cadres Department’s sector heads.”
That distribution list was crossed out and next to it someone wrote:
“one copy to the Secretaries in each language.” That person also wrote the names Kirsanov and Stasova.