DOCUMENT 47

 

Resolution of the ECCI Presidium regarding the expulsion of ECCI members and candidate members and ICC members "who turned out to be enemies of the people.”

 

Top secret.

Cop[y] ac.

.VII-38.

DRAFT RESOLUTION

On the expulsion of members and candidate members of the Executive Committee of the Comintern and members of the International Control Commission who turned out to be enemies of the people.

RESOLVED: To expel from the Executive Committee of the Comintern and the International Control Commission the following members and candidate members:

Members of the Executive Committee:

1.   BRONKOWSKI, B. B.

2.   KUN, Bela

3.   LENSKI, J. E.

4.   ZHANG, Guotao[i]

Candidate members of the Executive Committee:

1.   BIELEWSKI, Ya. S.

2.   GORKIC, M. M.[ii]

3.   KRUMIN, Ya. M.

4.   PRÓCHNIAK, E.

5.   CHEMODANOV, V. T.

6.   POPOV, N. N.

Members of the International Control Commission:

1.   ANGARETIS, Z. I.

2.   ANVELT, Ya. Ya.

3.   WALECKI, M. G.

4.   GRZEGORZEWSKI, F. Ya.

5.   ISKROV, P. Kh.

6.   KRAJEWSKI, A. P.

7.   EBERLEIN, Hugo

Dimitrov

Manuilsky

Florin

Kuusinen.

RGASPI, f. 495, op. 2, d. 264, l. 211.

Original in Russian. Typewritten.

 

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[i] Guotao Zhang (1897-1979). A member of the CPCh from 1921, a member of its CC in 1921-1923 and in 1925-1938, a member of the Political Bureau of its CC in 1927-1938. From 1928 to 1935, he was a candidate ECCI member, and from 1935 to 1938, a member of the ECCI. Between 1929 and 1930, he was a representative of the CPCh in the ECCI. In 1938, he was expelled from the CPCh and joined the Kuomintang. Between 1945 and 1949, he was member of the Kuomintang’s Central Committee. After 1949, he lived in emigration.

[ii] Milan Gorkic (real name – Cizinski) (1904-1937). A member of the CPYu from 1919, after 1932, a member of the Political Bureau of the CC CPYu, after 1936, Secretary of the CC CPYu. In 1919-1932, he worked in the EC KIM and ECCI apparatus. After 1935, Secretary  of the EC KIM and candidate ECCI member. On 14 August 1937, he was arrested. On 1 November 1937, the Military Board of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to be shot; he was executed that day.