Document 10

Letter to Pravda included in summary report "Why Are you Silent about Your Crimes,"

1930

RAE, f. 7436s, op. 1, d. 102, l. 228. Typed copy.

. . . When you begin reading newspapers, in particular Pravda, you automatically get upset that such a revolting and outrageous lie has been written, and who exactly is this lie written for? It's for us, the Russian workers. Did Lenin, or Marx, ever teach the party to lie so outrageously, so shamelessly, without blushing? You commit acts of violence against workers and peasants. You scribblers, you've enslaved us worse than the tsar and you write impudently, you lie that you are for us workers. It's time to drive you out, you vile creatures, so you won't enslave the peasants in Lenin's name.

You invented something called a kolkhoz that no one needs (even Stalin [An allusion to Stalin's article "Dizzy from Success" (See below)]). You robbed people. People get rid of their livestock, and then you go and write in Pravda that they went [to the kolkhoz] voluntarily. In 1918 and 1919 they trusted you, you had the slogan: >factories and plants to the workers, all the land without payment to those who reap,' but is that what has happened?. . .