DOCUMENT
53
Resolution
of the ECCI Secretariat on the Bela Kun question.
Top
secret.
MK/3/
Conclusions
of the Commission on com[rade] BELA KUN.[i]
Having
examined all the available materials in the case of com. BELA KUN’s campaign
against the new leadership of the CP of Hungary, [against] the Comintern line
and [against] the ECCI’s leadership, and having carefully examined the
explanations of com. KUN, the commission found that this campaign is a
continuation of com. BELA KUN’s destructive work in the Communist Party of
Hungary and among the Hungarian émigrés in the USSR.
Having
conducted an unscrupulous, factionalist policy for a number of years, com. BELA
KUN selected cadres exclusively on the basis of his group’s interests, [and]
discredited and removed from party work all those who did not want to reconcile
themselves to his factionalist methods of the leadership. As a result of this
factionalist policy, com. KUN overlooked the saturation of the party by
provocative elements, [a process] that destroyed the best party activists and
undermined the faith of the masses in the party. An ambiguous speech by BELA
KUN at the party meeting at the time of Magyar’s expulsion from the party was another
example of the dulling of [his] Bolshevik vigilance.
After
the [7th Comintern] Congress, [and] in defiance of a special
directive from the ECCI’s Secretariat, com. BELA KUN, along with certain other
members of the CC CPH (Gross and others), actually sabotaged the implementation
of the line of the VII Congress in the Communist Party of Hungary by
persistently pursuing his sectarian aims and by inculcating into the CC of the
Communist Party of Hungary hostility toward the line and the new Comintern’s leadership.
To
[sustain] the disorganizing work against the new ECCI’s leadership, com. BELA
KUN also employed absolutely inadmissible methods so as to discredit the
leading workers of the ECCI by spreading slanders about them.
Having
established the destructive work of com. BELA KUN against the leadership of the
C.P.H. and the leadership of the ECCI, the commission considers completely
impossible any [further] participation by com. BELA KUN in the work of the CP
of Hungary as well as using him as a worker in the ECCI apparatus.
G.
Dimitrov.
RGASPI, f. 495, op. 18, d. 1112, l. 46.
Original in Russian with the title
written in German. Typewritten.
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[i] The title of the document is written in German: Schlußfolgerungen der eingesetzten Kommission betr. Gen. BELA KUN.