The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-10

in recent years for wrecking pur-
poses. He declared that Menshevism
today was bankrupt He said if his
life was granted that he would full
fill the line of the Communist Party
even under the Severest conditions.
Outside of this he said, his life was
not needed He said he wanted
partially to wipe out the great crimes
he has committed.
Then Sukhanov commenced a two
hour speech, Directing to the sharp
words of the prosecutor of yesterday
about seeking originality. He said
re accepted full responsibility of his
activity in the Menshevik Bureau
in the USSR. He said he understood
the social Importance of the present
trial He traced the evolution of
Menshevism from 1903 at consider
able length. Today, he declared,
Menshevism is the foundation of the
capitalist state, and without it it is
impossible to rule against the will
of the proletariat in the chief capt.
talist countries. Under Russian con-
disions, social democracy is not a
loyal opposition but counter-revo-
luton. The slogan of the Menshev-
iks in 1917, "Stop the Civil War"
was thrown out and directed, not
against the whites, but against the
workers. 1t was the first act of in
tervention policy. The further out
standing step was the transfer of the
Menshevik executive, in the summer
of 1918, from Soviet territory, where
they felt unfree, to the area of
CzechoSlovak rebellion nthe Volga
He said he entered Menshevism
realizing all this, including the
wrecking and intervention, which he
repeated was an essential part of
MenShevism. These views he said
are not new, and are not forced by
prison walls, as all those who know
him can confirm.
He traced his personal biography,
depicting the chief objection after
1917 was military Communism, which
they regarded as road to reaction
After the New Economic Policy they
thought all was well, and in 1928
applied for membership in the Com
munist Party. In 1924 he edited the
Soviet press abroad; in 1926, he was
enthused by the British general
strike. He was thrown off the track
into complete panic by the econ
omic difficulties beginning in 1927
He failed to see the resolute struggle
against these difficulties, and only
say the terrifying approach of mill
tary Communism, driving him to en-
ter the Menshevik block with Kon-
dratyev, Ramzin, the Kulaks, and
the devil himself.
All this said Sukhanov was more
than a crime; it was a mistake, in
the words of one of Napoleon's min
listers.
Krylenko quoted long series of
articles from the Socialist Vesnik
paper of the Russian Social Demo-
Gratis, written in 1929 and 1880. All
were drawn up with the same double
faced terms, describable as legal agi-
tation for intervention. One,
Shifrin, analyzing world politics.
concludes that France, Britain and
the border states, were uninterested
in war on the Soviet Union, but
feared the military action of the
Soviet Union in India and China,
creating war danger and another
Chinese Eastern Railway incident,
declaring that it was Stains policy
to utilize the war panic, playing with
fire. Another states that the Soviet
government was stalking it's cards on
military catastrophe. Another de-
manded the Soviet workers to pre-
vent the Soviet government from
playing with war towards China, 25
years after the defeats of Czarism,
thereby suggesting that the Soviet
policy was analogous to Czarism's.
Khylenko quoted the parallel de-
clarations of the Second Inter1la-
tional. Thus, "Vorwaerts," German
socialist organ, on December 3, 1929,
said that the war menace was in
tensified by the struggle of self-de-
termination of Georgia, Azerbaidjan
and Armenia. A peace guarantee
would be the Observation-Disclosures of
the oil in these regions. which is
the fulfillment of Deterding's dream,
the detachment Of the Caucasus from
the u.S.S.R.
During the conflict over the Chin
ese Eastern Railway, the Second In
ternational declared in favor of the
demand Of Soviet withdrawal from
the railway and settlement by ar
bitration. 1t supported the impudent
Interference of the imperialists.
The manifestoes of the Second In
ternational, the articles in Vesnik,
Abramowitch's instructions on prac-
tical wrecking-all are links in the
same chain, socia1-fascist interven-
ton preparations.
Krylenko summarized the ample
evidence produced, the accused's
statements, the interception docu-
ments, the published articles justi-
flying the charges point by point,
eliminating in a whitening descrip-
ton of the accused counter-revolu-