The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
FRIDAY. DECEMBER %, 1884
The Counter>ReVolutiondry
Plot Against the U.S.S.R.

MORE proof of the wide ramifcations of
III the anti-Soviet counter-revolutionary
plot is now coming out in the confessions
of the assassin of Comrade Kirov, the
Zinoviev group adherent, Nikolaev. Sergei
Kirov, it now turns out, was just one of the vic
tins slated for murder Comrades Stain, Molotov
and other outstanding Bolshevk leaders were to be
the victims of the assassin's bullets
The remnants of the former Zinoviev opposi-
tion which had been lquidated, and whose leaders
had hypocrtcally declared their unqualified adj
herence to the Party line, continued by the most
desperate means to try to destroy the Party leader
ship in order to open the way for foreign imperial
list intervention Unable to win even the slightest
hope of mass support for their treacherous policies,
they resorted to the methods Of assassination
and sabotage publicly announced by the Russian
fasciss in the United States and the Czarst white
guards in Jugosavs, and throughout the capitalist
world
Nicholaev, the assassin of Comrade Kirov, openly
admitted the desperation of his counter revolution
airy group:
I'VE could not expect change in the Party
leadership by methods of fnner-Party democracy.
We realize that this path entirely excluded.
Hence, path alone remained-the path of
terrorist acts. When shot at Krov, L reasoned
thus Our shot must be the signal for calling for
actions within the country against the Communist
rarity OIL Inc soviet Union ana the SOVIET govern
ment.'
Another of the zinoviev- Trotzkyite band of as
sassins admitted that decisions to carry out the
terrorstic actions arose from 'the platform of the
Trotzkyite- Zinovev bloc-which was to undermine
the authority of the present Party leadership and
to replace it by leaders of our organization, Zinc
view, Kanenev, etc, who are supporters of chang
ing the present Party line"
To achieve this end of destroying "the present
If If
Soviet Union, the zinoviev-T rotzkyte conspirators
coaborated with Czarist white guards and the rep
resentatives of the foreign capitalist powers.
Nikolaev met with the Consul of one of these
powers in Leningrad Who he was is not published
in the Soviet press because of diplomatic reasons
But is indicated by capitalist press correspondents
in the Soviet Union that this Consul was the repre-
sentative of German fascism.
The counter-revolutionary supporters Of the
Trotzkyte gang in this country, in order to arouse
the hatred of the masses against the Soviet Union
have been crying for proof" Here is the proof
out Of the mouths of the conspirators themselves.
Against the policy of building Socialism in the
Soviet Union, the Trotzlyite zinovev agents in the
U. S. S. R. stopped at MISUNDERSTANDING assist
ance of the most rabid fascist elements bent on
wholesale assassinations to sound the signal of war
against the Soviet Union, and destruction of the
workers state
Confirmation of the confession of the zinoviev-
Trotzkyite aSsassins can be found in the fascist
press in the United States. Isaac don Levine for
example at the time Of the assassination of Com
rade Kirov, declared that this was but the begin
ming Of a series Of assassnations the chief victim
of which was to be Stain. He declared further in
the Hearst press of Dec O. that certain Tabor oppo-
sition groups" involved along with other oppo-
nents of Boshevism.
Though the assassns were given crushing blow
their chief allies the imperialist enemies of the
Soviet Union, continue their war preparations
against the Soviet Union.
The very rapid advance of Socialist construction
the mighty growth of the Soviet's peace policy and
It's increasing ability to defend itself against all war
adventures, spurs its enemies to strike before
it is forever impossible.
For this reason, the world proletariat must now.
more than ever be on its guard for the defense of
the Soviet Union for the defense of the fortress of
the world proletarian revolution.