Document 1
Telegram from the
Comintern's Youth Organization to Gilbert Green, CPUSA, regarding the struggle
against oppositionists.
1 January 1935
To Ney [sic] York
Youth CC Green
The investigation of the murder of
Kirov brought out the deathly [sic] picture of the counter-revolutionary work
of the remnants of the former Zinoviev-Trotskyist opposition which lost all
hopes [sic] of the the support of the masses and prepared to murder Stalin and
his co-workers and gain the downfall of the Soviet power by intervention of the
imperialists.
Trotsky--one of the chief organizers
and spirit of this criminal fascist group[--]carries full responsibility for
the killing of Kirov. Broadly explain
to the toiling youth, especially the socialist [sic], the counter-revolutionary
fascist character of the role of Trotsky and the trotskyists. Achieve the complete expulsion of the
trotskyists from the workers' movement.
With everyday work, continually
explain the great role of Stalin[,] continuer of the work of Marx-Lenin, the
genial organizer of the victory of socialism in the USSR, the [be]loved leader
of the international proletariat.
Point out that Stalin as a great
leader and friend and person is surrounded by the love of hundreds of
millions. Call to [sic] the youth to
study the genial works of the life and struggle of Lenin-Stalin, educate
themselves in a Leninist-Stalinist quality, work in the spirit of the unlimited
trust and love for Stalin and his co-workers--members of the Political Bureau
of the CP SU.
YCI[i]
f. 495, op. 184, d.
26, outgoing 1935g. to New York, ch. 1, l. 1.
Original in
English. Typewritten.
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[i]Signatures at the bottom of the telegram indicate that Vasili T. Chemodanov, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the KIM from 1930 to 1937, and Alexander L. Abramov, who headed the OMS from 1926, and was the deputy head of the Communications Department from 1935, approved the text. Chemodanov (1903-37) joined the VKP in 1924. He was arrested by the NKVD on the evening of 15-16 September 1937, and sentenced to be shot on 27 November 1937. Abramov (pseudonym Mirov) (1895-1937) joined the Bolsheviks in 1916. He was arrested in 1937 and executed on 26 November 1937.