DOCUMENT 68

Letter from Bela Szanto to the deputy head of the ECCI’s Cadres Department, Belov, requesting material support. 9 June 1940.

To the Deputy Head of the ECCI’s Cadres Department, com. Belov.

I am asking for your support in obtaining, via MOPR, material support and authorization to go to a sanatorium. On 24/II 1938, I was arrested by NKVD organs. At the time of the arrest, I was not working anywhere, since I had been expelled from the party in December 1937. Until December 1937, I had been working as a Director of Commissariat of Heavy Industry’s Scientific Library. At present, the Narkomat is dissolved, and I was denied sick benefits. I was released on 29/IV 1940 as a result of the closing of my case and my readmission to the VKP(b).

9/VI-40.

Bela Szanto

(Bela Szanto)

RGASPI, f. 495, op. 199, d. 184 (II), l. 93.

Original in Russian. Handwritten.

----------------------------------------------------------------------