Title | World voices on the Moscow trials |
Alternative Title | World voices on the Moscow trials: a compilation from the labor and liberal press of the world |
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Publisher | Pioneer Publishers |
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Date | 1936? |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 64 pages: 1 illustration; 20 cm |
Original Item Location | DK266.3.A45 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304404~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | In Copyright: This item is protected by copyright. Copyright to this resource is held by the creator or current rights holder, and the resource is provided here for educational purposes. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without permission of the copyright owner. Users assume full responsibility for any infringement of copyright or related rights. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 61 |
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File Name | uhlib_2774257_060.jpg |
Transcript | was possible for him to say. The activity of the terrorist center extended, according to his statement, "factually to the year 1936" —which permits only one conclusion, that this activity of the "center" since the end of 1934 was carried out under the supervision of the G. P. U. The sole document introduced in the case was a citation from a letter of Trotsky's which contained the demand that Stalin be "removed." This letter was presumably found in the false bottom of a trunk belonging to the accused Holtzmann. But as a matter of fact the solitary document of the whole trial is nothing else than the "Open Letter to the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union" which Trotsky wrote March 1, 1932, on the occasion of his deprivation of Russian citizenship and was published in the Bulletin of the Opposition (Russian—Ed.) The important passage which contains the sharp comment against Stalin reads: "Isolated from the apparatus, opposed to the apparatus, Stalin is nothing, an empty blank. The man who yesterday was the symbol of the governing apparatus, will to-morrow in the eyes of all be the symbol of the bankrupt apparatus. It is time to abandon the Stalin myth. One must trust the working class and its real not counterfeit party. One must at last follow Lenin's final, urgent advice: Remove Stalin." To introduce this "Open Letter" as documentary evidence of terrorist plans means only one thing: that the alleged command to murder Stalin was directed to the Central Executive Committee, the highest administrative instance of the Soviet Union, and was formulated in the words of the old Bolshevik, Lenin. Paris, September, 1936. 59 |