Document 8

Letter to Pravda from I. P. Koniukhov, Western Oblast, 1930

RGAE, f. 7486, op. 1, d. 100, l. 21. Typed copy.

Worker and peasant youth have taken this path with ardor to master it, to get to know one another on this path, to unite, so that by its end there is no division into workers and peasants, but one whole with proletarian consciousness and feeling. Starting down this path we see proof (we won't speak of what is put down on paper) of a new variety of antisemitism: persecution of the muzhik. They try to belittle peasants working at the plant by calling them "Hairy Muzhik." Nicknames like this say "How backward the countryside is."