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SOCIALIST APPEAL September 18, 1937 How Hounds Revolutionists o Old Bolshevik, Tarov, Escapes, Testifies to Inquiry Commission Spanish Govt. Outlaws Criticism, Chains Press we were was the (Continued from last week) Akmolinsk, a place where there, beg for mercy, etc. This was In the meantime, the was not yet a railway, a man done with the purpose of frighttrying to construct with bare ening the other prisoners. It was pursued its work of demoraliza hands broadcasting station to not until they reached the courttion. was dismissed from my communicate abroad with Trots yard that they gagged the conjob without even receiving the ky!
demned man, and the cries ceased.
wages due, on the pretext that had been given a wrong rating.
But the had located We knew, by counting the shots, a witness who declared that we the number of bullets it took to Manuel Irujo, Basque business days on August for having disThey had me come to the Gapor had attempted to build this sta finish the victim. The next day, man Catholic, and Minister of obeyed orders of the censor.
another, of the chief assistants. tion together. They even found while walking in the courtyard Justice of the Valencia Govern Paulino Gomez, General Delegate One threatened, the other offer material proof at the witness around od privileges, etc. But all to no house, that is, parts of radio ap that recked of blood, we would published in the official Gaceta. formed the press that the specific was a learn which of us was missing. Whoever censures as fascist, they should not publish white act of disobedience was that avail, remained firm in my posi paratus. This witness tion direct agent of the preliminary Began in 1928 as traitor, as anti revolutionary, spaces. That is, deletions by the Finally, for the last time, investigation and accompanied given person or group of persens, censor must be hidden from the was called before the us to the Verkhne Uralsk isolator.
In August, 1928, was sitting unreasonably or without sufkient masses by inserting other me.
withe deported that the prove my There, after three days he hand. home one night, reading. Sud foundation, or without the (court)terial. The CNT press had been abandonment the Oppositioned in having pronounced protesting the censorship in silent by facts.
What kind of facts? tion and he was set free so that denly the door opened, and there authority a YCler, Andrusha. sentence on him (the accused. fashion by leaving the blank We must teach these Trotskyists he could continue his work else Conspiratorial methods had fails is his duty before the law. spaces.
how to tehave, they inswered, and where.
been introduced among us after He who denounces citizen From Akmolinsk The Gaceta of August 11 pubasked me to name the Zinovievists split from us for being sieh whom hade worked in the transfered to Petropavlovsk. The and had, on innumerable occa or for administering the sacra. Council of Aragon, in place of priest of a religion lishes the decree dissolving the oooo categorically refused, and carried on in the inner prison to the GPU. For this reason, and disruptive disturbance of general is to rule this province.
Hadded that for my Oppositionist we were isolated from each other Andrusha, on being questioned, public order when not connitting Established September, 1936 with port in the past had already at the start. After a preliminary could not say who had given him an irreparable crime worthy of a CNT majority and a program served time in prison and in exile questioning, was placed with the Oppositionist literature that penal punishment.
of agrarian collectivization.
but that now, since my abandon ordinary criminals. In a cell in had been found in his possession. Decree Helpe Fascists Council had ably re established ment of the Opposition, pledged tended for two or three men, They put Andrusha in a cell.
myself no longer to work against there were from twenty six to There he was tied to the cot, so This decree puts a complete production in the areas wrested dripped end to ferreting out of fascists from the Fascists by the Catalan agent became irritable only sit down. To stretch out, it constantly on him. At night he py the workers, as well as halt militias.
The CNT of Madrid of August and called me a faker.
was necessary to ask the only ing sharp ideological criticism of After the conversation with one lying under the bench to yield was transferred to an even more the government bloe. It also ends 14 published the following decree terrible place, he was undressed, the GP. agent, became con This place. We suffered excrutiat the barrel of a loaded revolver all forms of surveillance of the of the Ministry of Interior, outvinced that the only way out of ing torture from the lack of ven was pressed against his belly, and Catholic priesthood just after the lawing all press criticism of the Vatican has openly thrown its Stalinist regime: the situation was to escape from tilation in the cell. It was hot, they threatened him: We are With repetitions, that permit Commenting on previous divining a deliberate plar of of deed, mobably with the purpose ourselves suffocating. Our lungs going to fire all seven shots if support to Franco.
you do not confess! The YCL er compressed. Even any relations with other exiled tiny peep hole was barred from gave in but did not know whom circular of Minister Irujo decree fending an exceptionally friendly to name. The gave him ing legalization of Catholic ritual nation, thereby creating difficul services in private, the CNT ties for the government, various Oppositionists. was unemployed, the outside. shall never forget these days time to regain his senses.
deprived of correspondence with regained his senses Spanish (Valencia) Bulletin of newspapers have occupied them and reAugust 14 declares that his selves with the wasuitmy family and friends. The of terrible torture. The prisoners membered, me, for he knew that famous circular had as its end nable license should not be authorably. This absolutely conden demonstrations, dehad a special spy who kept cons organized belonged to the Opposition. He a sound decided then to tell the to prepare for the domination of tant watch over me and who did manding air, but not ized by the council of censors.
not hesitate to tell me of his role. came from the corridor; the that it was who had given him the Catholic Church, that again The disobeying newspaper will be Nevertheless succeeded in es guards were under orders to the propaganda material. But he against the people, enforcing the suspended indefinitely. even caping maintain absolute silence. They could not remember my name counter revolution alicady initiat though it may have been passed had placed me among the ordinary and exact address. He therefore ed. Rakovsky End criminals to force me to give undertook to conduct censor who read the proofs being false testimony. But after the agents to my lodging.
CXT Organ Suspended held for the Special Tribunal Rakovāky could not do as much questioning. wrote on the pages The men did not venture Solidaridad Obrera, chief CNT charged with dealing with crimes That was impossible for a sick of the record: consider the to search my place immediately. organ, was suspended for five of sabotage.
old man. And he was lost. His entire testimony of the witness, They did it only a month later, telegram immediately divided agent of the to be pro when him from the Opposition. The rocative they received a general convictions but weak constitu broken, and the firm Oppositioninsinuations the order from Moscow: arrest and tions or characters, they were ist of yesterday was transformed, immense confidence that the Op The examinations were deport all Opposionists. Then, in unable to withstand the constant in the hands of the into posionists had in him fell to zero. terminated. was sentenced to a single night, the arrest. repressions and violence of the a tool against the Opposition.
And the utilized all its three years methods repression to force Jantiev, Khudaev, Peter Popov, tionists in our city, in accordance In the end, they were des: lating to this state of inffairs: Rakovsky say after he had Zalaev, and two local workers with lists that we ourselves had the capitulators, without excer. positionists in the All in 1933 (in December. we Opsaid Rakovsky said B, that is, that they had mixed into our sent to the Central Committee in tion in the beginning did not wish Uralsk isolator began a hunger Verkhnehe wrote a long letter against case. The rest were deported to the past in order to support by to slander the Opposition or the Opposition, a letter that con the depths of Siberia.
stituted his political suicide. Ra When the men arrest faction.
our votes the proposals of our onsider their convictions errone strike, demanding that the auIthorities cease arbitrarily prokorsky lost all political dignity. anybody in the street or at home, ous, counter revolutionary etc. longing the sentences of the OpThe did not let him escape they never say, Hands up! or They all began by pledging no positionists. On the eleventh day Hunger Strike nga in Eurom its web. Don move! but shout, Lie longer to carry on factional work of the strike, the prison adminisI ask pardan for dwelling so down! first discovered this in In the Verkhne Uralsk isolator Unemployment, arrests, deporta tration resorted to forcible feedlong on this matter, but think Petropavlovsk prison in 1931. in December, 1933 we Opposition tions, executions, concentration ing. The Mensheviks would not it may de useful to the commis The one eyed executioner of the ists (about 130 men) declared a camps, tortures in prison, all tolerate this arbitrary treatment and deof the concerning capitu name) thus arrested kolkhoz and of the After eleven days, issued by the head of the Central against the outrages in Lound wunderstanding of the role of German origin, forget his the abominations and oppressions sitionists in the cruelest form, in clared on their side three day Lasters, and the real relations bet worker wreckers. In the begin we wees the Opposition and the ning, there were very few who hunger. It was no longer difficult Committee.
refusing to satisfy the legitimate capitulaters.
consented to lie down before the for us to continue the hunger The did not liberate ca demands of the prisoners, and How the Tortures ruthlessly destroyed men, and it But the did nok permit us they were required to declare the same time, newly arrived agent. But the regime strike four or five days, and die. pitulators at once. To begin with, risking the death of 130 men. At Prisoners taught the Soviet citizen to lie die. They fed forcibly for that they considered their beliefs capitulators whom Stalin migdown before the agent. one day (with a rubber tube in and ideas counter revolutionary, trusting had decided to impriL 1931, the night of January Thus are Soviet citizens treated serted into the stomach through that those ideas were anti com son in the Verkhne Uralsk isola 21st 22nd, the carried out from the moment of arrest, that the mouth; ten jailors held each munist, Menshevist, and that tor, not only did not support we, mask wirest of Oppositionists in is to say, when it is not yet estab of us during this operation) to Trotsky was an agent of the but even shouted: Down with the different cities and places of lished whether they are guilty excite our appetites and torture other words, the did not skyists!
In Opposition! Down with the Trotexile. Gre the same night, they or not.
us with pangs of hunger, in order let them go until it had transerreated our entire colony of Such cynical attitude on the to break the hunger strike.
Slaughterhouse exiles at Akmelinsk (Jantiev, formed them into dirty and part of the imprisoned capitulaKhugajev, Djigaev, Davtian, ZA Why They Confess trampled tatters. After their tors toward the Oppositionists on In the inner prison of Petropoev, Cassanov, Gogadze, Tsint Pavlovsk, where the author of official renunciation, the capitu hunger strike aroused the disgust andre, Michael. and others. The these lines remained for six way out but to give false testi two years, and sometimes more latter forced the capitulators to The capitulators have no other lators stayed in prison a year, even of the guards. The investigation began.
months waiting for the sentence mony and confessions, e. to Many capitulators were They accused me of having pronounced in Moscow, the repeat everything the kept in prison after they had of prisoners toward other prisoneven be silent, calling such an attitude tried to construct a short wave shot the condemned in a special dictates to them. Whoever is served their sentences. During ers, shameful.
radio broadcasting in structure erected directly in the acquainted with the ideological this time, the capitulators had to And then, after all that in order to establish communication center of the court yard where dispute between the Opposition write dozens of statements. Fol the Moscow trials they tell us abroad, with Trotsky. This was the prisoners took their daily and the Stalinists will not be lowing repeated interviews with that the Bolshevik Leninist Oprecorded in my indictment. walks. Generally, when at night astonished when say that the the head of the prison, they position formed blocand broadcastingo station, short wave corridors to the slagtighter house abandoned the opposition only state of hervous collapse, cursing center with such mer!
or any other kind. If it were not as the prisoners called this because they could not endure the cursing themselves.
Paris, June 12, 1937.
for the arrest, it would have place they gave him an oppor the bestial repression of the but finding no way out. Finally been unic. In Kazakstan, at tunity to cry out, howl, implore, IG. Often, having strong their political backbone was of station (Abridged by the editor)