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last hope on being able by series
of provocative acts, to involve the
U. S. S. r. in internal difficulties
such as would lead to armed inter
vention and war.
These terroristic anti-Soviet acti-
vities are organized on an interna-
tional scale. Groups with which
Vassiliey long had connections plan
ned an attack on Kalinin and Soviet
leaders in 1928 resulting in the
shooting of Comrade Shaposhnikov
senior inspector of the Red Army, by
one Lev Lubarsky. Lubarsky testified
that he had committed this murder
upon the direct instructions from
Vsevolod Lubarsky. The latter at
this time was serving as official
courier of the Polish government,
and had come to Moscow with a
diplomatic pass.
Other terroristic acts included the
killing of the Soviet Ambassador,
Voikoff, in Poland in 1927 and the
recent tlwarted attempt on the Jap
Ianese Ambassador in Moscow by
Vaitek in the employ of foreign
power and in Tokyo on a Soviet
Representative.
However, the SOVIET power ever on
guard in defence of the workers in
terests, succeeded in unmaSking the
Stern and Vassiliev plots and today
more strongly than ever reaffims the
policy of peace and victorious So
cialist construction.
Vassiliev is the son of a landowner
and property holder, by profession
an accountant and acknowledges he
has long bhen a conscious and &C.
tive enemy of the Soviet power
Acting under instructions of a
counter revolutionary organization
directed by Polish agents, he per-
suaded Stern to the provocative at
tack on the representative of the
German government in Moscow with
the definite purpose of creating
strained relations between the U. S.
S. r. and this power, This, occurr-
ing at a time of the extreme war
danger in the Far East might we'll
lead, so Vassiliev told Stern, to ag-
gressive action by hostile powers in
the west,
! Vassiliev emphasized that as a re-
suit Of this war, the Soviet power
might be overthrown.
Sterns attack was supposedly
aimed at Van Dirksen, German am
bassador, but nlistaking Won Twar-
dowsky, councillor in the German
Embassy for Won Dirksen, five times
shot at him on March 9Th.
Stern was weak tool in Vas
siliev'S hands who in turn acted
upon instructions from third parties
whose identity he has persistently
refused to reveal.
The son Of a petty bourgeois, Stern
also viewed the advances Of socialist
industry and agriculture with hate
and alarm. With the further re-
duction of the role Of privately run
industry, Stern found himself COM
PEELED by circumstances to earn his
living as a casual laborer. However,
he was consistently shown himself
hostile and unwilling to carry on his
work or adjust himself to Soviet life.
Stern's sister, who unlike her broth
er, is a loyal supporter of workers
power and the wife of a worker,
came from Leningrad to testify as
to her brothers anti-social, schem-
ing and lazy character. Egoistical
and self-centered, he has always
given his family many difficulties,
deceiving and cheating his family,
friends and teacher, and all with
lated how he persistently refused to
make use of the opportunities which
whom he came in contact. She re-
Soviet society had given him to be-
come a useful citizen, and criticized
his strong anti-Soviet views.
He was expelled from at least two
schools for failure to attend to his
studies anddisrupte d actions. He
was also expelled from trade union
on the same basis and when he was
reinstated after six months, he was
again expelled and fired from a fac
tory.
Stern and Vassiliev are examples
of the few remaining anti working
class parasitic elements in the So
Wet Union that the white guards in
the service of the imperialists in
their war plans against the workers
fatherland.