November 6, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Stalin on His Own Frame Ups ers The Real Prosecuting Attorney Finally Presents Another Explanation of the Moscow Trials with Arguments That Do Not Discredit Those Fighting Against the Despotism of the Bureaucracy, but Which Are a Merciless Indictment of the Political Regime of the Bureaucrcy Itself By Leon Trotsky (Concluded from last issue) were not interested. What kind hem to do so.
information regarding espionage tivities in Uralvagonstroy.
of economic work was swallow Let us leave aside the wond nad sabotage to be given even Here is how the commission Stalin explanations of sabotage ing up these people, if they con rous portrayal of the relations 30 40 tested Trotskyists in the formulated its general conclurest on the same level as his en trived overlook the disruption existing within the Opposition On the other hand, the sions, regarding Uralvagonstroi. tire speech. Why did our people of economic life? And just who the pretended fact that old re Fourth International, numbering On acquainting ourselves with fail to notice it? he aska, put should have paid attention to volutionists dare not meet in the many thousands of young mem the Uralvagon plant, we have ting a question which it is impos sabotage, when the pretended without special per bers, consists two thirds of spies arrived at the firm conviction sible to avoid. Here is his answer: organizers of it were themselves mission from Trotsky in distant and diversionists. Does Stalin that the wrecking work of Piat For the last few years Party comrades have been entirely does not even attempt to tie the our the organizers of economy? Stalin exile!
mean to say that while hiding kov and Marusyan did not sprea This totalitarian police cari his program from tens, Trots very far in the enterprise swallowed up by economic work threads together. In point of fact cature, which if anything re ky imparts it thousands. Truly, and else. This idea, as is Stalin the following: Carried away by regime, does not interest us now. reason.
forgot about everything the idea he seeks to express is flects the spirit of the Stalin venom and cunning are bereft of Molotov waxed indignant. Said Behind the ponderous he: The political myopia of absolutely selfcustom, is presented in ten dif practical work, the economists There is another point of greater stupidity of this slander there evident. Suffice it to say that ferent variations, without any forgot the higher interests of mportance: How are we to relateurks, however, a fixed and pract this commission failed to cite a success, the leaders e simply the ruling clique which demands the general characterization of Lical plane taimed at the physical single instance of wrecking at the paid no attention to sabotage framed up accusations, even if to Trotskyism to that of the Fourth extermination of the enterprise. It would appear that nternational. Trotsky forbade tional revolutionary vanguard.
They did not take note of it. They the injury of economy.
the notorious wrecker, Marusyan, The Entire Old Guard Is Given the Name of An Appeal to the General Staffs for Information and the other wrecker, Okudjava, had only vilified theinselves.
Against the Trotskyists Wreckers by Stalin (Pravda, April 21, 1937. Our Even before this plan was put, staffs with products of his own emphasis. One can hardly beYears ago, continues Stalin, ſnov, Yevdokimov, Piatakov, ka into execution in Spain, it was creation. The first conjecture is lieve one eyes. These people those engaged in wrecking were dek, Rakovsky, Mrachkovsky, evealed with utter shameless far too improbable. British and have lost not only all sense of the intervening period we train Sosnovsky, Beloborodov, Eltsin, ness in La Correspondance In French General Staffs have no shame but all caution!
Comintern But why was it at all necessary ed tens and hundreds of thous Mdivani, Okudjava, Gamarnik, ical of the Comintern (and the journalists for assistance in the to send out an investigating com ands of technically grounded Tukhachevsky, Yakir and hund. almost simultaneously exposure of Trotskyism. Only mission, after the defendants had Bolshevik cadres. Hundreds of reds of lesser known men the with the publication of Stalin the second hypothesis remains, been shot? The posthumous inthousands of cadres. Nowa entire old leading stratum of the peech, March 20, 1937. In an namely, that the GPU manufact vestigation of facts relating to days the organizers of sabotage party, the state and the army, sticle directed against the Aus red some kind of documents wrecking was obviously made are not non party technicians become transformed into rem trian social democrat Otto Bauer, or foreign staffs.
necessary because publie opinion but wreckers who have acci nants of the smashed exploiting who, however he might gravitate In the Piatakov Radek trial placed no credence either in the dentally got possession of a classes. Heaping frame up on toward Soviet bureaucracy, can mention was made of my in accusations made by the GP. ed.
party card. Everything is stood frame up, Stalin has arrived at not bring himself to believe interview with German Minister or in the confessions it extorted.
on its head! In order to explain such a blind alley as makes it Vyshinsky, we find, among other Hess only indirectly and in pass Yet, the commission, under the why highly paid engineers will hard to find even a glimmer of things, the following statement: ing. Piatakov, despite his (pre guidance of Pavlunovsky, himingly reconcile themselves to sense to his answers. socialism while Bolsheviks op goal is clear: everything that present time an opportunity to no attempts during his (pretend for many years, failed to pose him, Stalin is unable to do stands in the path of the Bona: obtain very authentic information a) meeting with me to find out uncover a single fact relating to.
about the negotiations old guard of the party as wreck slandered and massacred.
between any details whatsoever concern sabotage. An obvious case of One must who have accidentally got It would be a mistake to think. Trotsky and Hess that man is ing my (pretended) meeting with political myopia possession of a party card. and continues the orator who, evidently, got stuck in the the arena of the class struggle formed on this point. Thanks to glaring contradiction in silence. branch of the People Commis that General Staffs are very well in in all others passed over this even under the mask of economic how could tens and hundreds of the If one extremity of Bauer has with Leon Blum and Borate on this theme. French and sariat of Heavy Industry, con thousands of technically ground the class struggle operates with Citrine (who, ed Bolshev cadres have over in the framework of the USSR, with both Baldwin and Sir Samuel parently the recipients of some at its head, was able to over: turn, is friendly British General Staffs were ap tinues Molotov, with Rataichak. looked sabotage by which indus the other extremity extends into Hoare. all he need do is turn to kind of documents. There is fulfill its plan for both 1935 and number of years? We have al states surrounding us So, it provide him with any kind of among the staff of the Comin mendly quips the head of the this fact 1936. Does this mean to say, ready heard the witty explana. turns out that the class struggle confidential information for per tern. Neither Paris nor London, Government, that Rataichak is however, made any use of this not Rataichak, that a wrecker is cupied with economic life to trenchment of socialism in one notice it was being destroyed. country but rather becomes more whence does Whose hand directed this pen? precious material. Why? Perhaps not a wrecker, and a Trotskyist However, for sabotage to suc aggravated. And the most impor ournalist of the Comintern derive source.
anonymous because they mistrusted not a Trotskyist?
Perhaps because Leon ceed, a favorable social millieu is tant reason for this unnatural Rataichak Sabotage his knowledge of the secrets of Blum and Daladier did not relish Tequired. Whence could it arise phenomenon is the parallel exin society of triumphant social istence of bourgeois states. Star Staffs: Either the capitalist executioners.
he English and French General becoming partners of the Moscow The sabotage of Rataichak, ism? Stalin reply is: The lin, in passing and imperceptibly staffs opened their dossiers to Finally, perhaps who was shot in the Piatakovgreater our progress Radek trial, consisted, this means, embittered will become the rem ion of the impossibility of build he communist journalist; or, on because Messers. Generals of over fulfilling the plans. It is the contrary, nants of the smashed exploiting ing classless society in one filled up the dossiers of the two more auspicious occasion.
this journalist eserving the documents for a hardly surprising that the harshest commission is compelled to the impotent embitterment of tions have very little attraction The Leaders of Economic Life Did Not Even Know ed with facts and figures which halt in impotence when confrontsome kind of remnants. isolat for him. The whole method of ed from the people, would hardly reasoning is not of a theoretical That It Was Being Wrecked refuse to harmonize with the suffice to convulse Soviet econ but of police manufactured The resolution that was adopt. the agents of Yagoda and the so taichak and others. In voluntary confessions of Raomy. In the second place, since character. Stalin is simply in ur. ed after Stalin report reads as called voluntees. e. provoquence, to use Molotov expreswhen have Zinoviev, Kamenev, gent need of extending abroad follows: The Trotskyists were cateurs, measured up to the situaRykov, Bukharin, Tomsky, Smir the extremity of his frame up. as a rule exposed by the organs tion. True, Yagoda himself was sion, it would appear that the vilified themThe Secret Platform of the Trotskyists Which It and by individual party mem of the people, a gangster and a selves.
Worse yet, it would Tells Only to the bers, acting as volunteers. But traitor. But this chance disappear that the Inquisition com For example, he continues. ors. The platform of the Trots the organs of industry, and to a covery did not resurrect those pelled many honest militants to let us take the counter revolu kysts is such as precludes its tation, did not themselves manibesmirch themselves with descertain degree those of transpor whom he had shot.
picable slander so as to facilitate As for Stalin his struggle against tionary Fourth national, consisting outwo thirds Trotskyists whisper is only in the fest any activity is nor, what is the import of these scandalous Trotskyism. This is that ar mould of spies and diversionists Is it ears Yagoda and Yezhov. Moreover, some organs of indus he Council of People Commis Stalin, supplemented by the refrom the not clear that this International Hear Stalin again: It is quite try even put a brake on this sars, Molotov, gave a public ac port of Molotov. And they are of spies will extrude cadres for comprehensible that the Trots: matter. Pravda, April 21, 1937. count of the failure on the part two most authoritative tigures in the spying and wrecking work kyists could not but hide such In other words, leaders of in of the government when it at the USSR!
of the Trotskyists. The Stalin a platform from the people, from dustry and transportation, des tempted to establish facts relatist syllogism is as a rule a pure the working class.
and simple tautology: an Inter Trotskyist rank and file, and not pite being prodded from above ing to sabotage, not through the The speech as a whole is national of spies will extrude only from the Trotskyist rank with white hot irons, could not provocateurs of the but distinguished in style. There are spies. Is it not clear? Far from and file but even from the Trots discover acts of sabotage in through the civic organs of eco hundreds of thousands it! On the contrary, it is absolute kyist leading tops, composed of their departments. member of nomic control. We quote from cadres. The class struggle of this, the reader need only refer When Radek and Piatakov asked the Political Bureau, Ordjonikdze, Molotov: In February of this possesses extremities. An ex the already familiar assertion Trotsky for permission. to was taken in by his assistant year (1937) a special penipo tremity operates. The defeStalin that Trotskyism has call together a small conference Piatakov. Another member of the tentiary commission sent rential editors dare not point out based to be a tendency in the of 30 or 40 Trotskyists to inform Political Bureau, Kaganovich, out, upon the instruction of the his illiteracy to the Leader working class and has become them about the nature of this loverlooked the wrecking activities People Commissariat of Heavy The style is not only the man. narrow group of conspirat platform, Trotsky forbade. of his alternate, Livshitz. Only Industry, to verify wrecking ac but also the regime.
an the are a conseappear report of of WAS