The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
O.G.P.U. BIRTHDAY
HAILEDBY MASSES
Is Years of Defending
Russian Revolution
BY n. BUCHWALD
Correspondent for Daily

European Correspondent for Daily
MOSCOW, Dec, &c, (By Cable =
All Soviet papers hail the fifteenth
anniversary of the OGPU, UNIFIED
State Political Administration, for
merly known as Extraordinary Com
mission or "Checka") founded Dec.
20, 1917.
Greetings by Soviet leaders in
Guiding Stain, Molotov, and highest
agencies of the workers and peasants
Government, as well as numerous
factories and regional governments
are prominently printed.
Editorials and special articles ac-
knowledge the great service of the
Cheka-OGPU rendered to the work
ing class in the defense of the re-
yolution from all enemies,
Fought Intervention
The editorial in the Pravda points
out several phases of the struggle
by the Cheka-OGPU against the en-
emies of the revolution. The first
phase is that of 1917-1920 during
which the Soviet Republic fought
against Intervention by fourteen
powers"
While the Red Army battled with
open enemies, the Cheka combatted
white guards behind the front, I'M
covering plots, fighting white terror
by the organized remnants of the
Russian bourgeoisie and nobility.
Ran Down White Guards
Later followed the period of strug-
gle against political banditry. The
Cheka ran down numerous white
bands, remnants of white armies de-
feated in the open warfare.
Pointing out the Importance of the
first phase of the Cheka, the Pravda
states; "The Proletarian and toiling
masses of the USSR know that the
victory of the Red Army on the fronts
Of the Civil War was made possible
because the rear was protected by the
self-sacrificing, heroic struggle of the
Cheka.'
Uncover Damagers
The next important phase of the
struggle against counter-revolution
was the period of economic damaging.
The OGPU uncovered the Industrial
Party, a counter-revolutionary group
Of Kondratiev- Chayanoy, counter re-
evolutionary interventionist organi2a-
ton of the Menshevik Central Com
mittee, agency of the foreign military
general-staffs, agency Of the rem
nants of the Russian bourgeoisie lay
ing the basis of economic destruction
of the country, and preparation for
military Intervention for the purpose
of restoring the power of the capital
lists and landowners.
"The OGPU rendered great SER
vice to the world proletariat in hav-
ing uncovered the counter-reyolu-
tionary work of the Menshevist Cen
trail Committee which participated
in the preparation of Intervention
under the direction of the imperial
lists, In having uncovered the imme-
date participation of the Second
Socialist" International in this
counter Revolutionary, interventionist
work"
Guard Revolution
The editorial points out the pre-
sent Importance of the OGPU guard
ing the achievements of the revolu-
ton against disrupters, and pillagers
Of public property, kulak elements
attempting to disrupt the Socialist
form of agriculture from within.
More than ever is needed its vigil
lance in uncovering and struggling
against the decayed, burocratic ele-
ments rolling down the path Of trea-
son-the path of counter-revolution
"Deceivers and swindlers carrying
out kulak unter-revolutionary po-
Icy under the guise of "agreement"
with the general Party line, must be
punished severely. The enemy with
Party books must be punished more
grayely than the enemy without
Party books"