The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
ZinOVieV, KameneV
Admit Their Guilt
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izing the activities Of the counter
revolutionary underground Zinoviey
group, confirmed the fact that with
a view to preserving its cadres, the
zinoviev organization went under
ground. It gave instructions to its
adherents to furnish the Commu-
mist Party with lying, hypocritical
statements concerning their ap-
proval and submission to Party
decisions.
stopped at Nothing
These hypocritical and treacher-
Gus methods of the counter-revolu-
tionary activity constitute the char
acteristic trait of their tactics of
struggle. They did not stop at any
means in order to attain their aim.
The accused Bskayev, relating
how the Moscow Zinoviev counter
revolutionary center crystallized,
stated:
"Our center had no definite
program which could oppose the
Central Committee Of the Party.
Here it was only a malicious, hos
tile critic of the most important
measures Of the Party. This type
Of criticism correspondent, it must
be admitted, with that of the
emigrant white guard degenerates.
In this lies precisely the tragedy
Of our situation. In our malicious
sallies in struggle against the
Party we slid down directly into
the white guard cOunter-revoIu-
tionary swamp. Lenin was a
thoHsand-fOld right when ne said
that the logic of struggle leads
every opposition to direct, open
cOunter-revolutiOn. Such is the
result which we must recognize"
Describing the counter-revolu-
tionary methods employed by the
Zinoviev underground group in its
struggle against the Soviet Gov
eminent, one of the members Of the
group, Safarov, whose case was
turned over for additional inves-
tigstion, declared
"After the particularly frequent
and animated meetings in 1882.
when the conspirators hoped to
debit their account because of
certain temporary difficulties
which occurred in the transition
from the first to the second Five
Year Plan, all underground circles
were frightened because Of the
routing of the nter-revoIutiou-
airy Ruth group. They returned
to their secret activity of creeping
counter
Reports were widely circulated
among members of the underground
group regarding various events of
internal and external policy in open
counter revolutionary interpreta-
ton, with deliberate distortion of
reality. These counter-revoIution-
airy reports" were carried out
through a number of participants
OF the group closest to zinoviev and
Evdokimov, who utilized their Off
cial position for criminal aims.
Investigation established THAI
members of the Moscow center y
Kukin, Gertik and Evdokimov, in
this manner maintained counter
revolutionary connections with
members of the "Leningrad center. !"
Hot Beds of SANDER
In its struggle against the Soviet
government, the underground coun-
ter-revolutionary group did not hes
ltate to use any means. AS the
accused Fedorov stated:
Members of our organization
were hOtbeds of the basest SLAM
der yarns concerning the Party
leadership. The organization did
not hesitate to release ISLANDERS.
lies and frauds, distorting facts.
1t thus applied all the basest
means borrowed from the arsenal
Of Fascism."
Concerning the counter-revolu.
tionary, degenerate underground
zinoviev group Safarov also says:
I'VE were extensively Stewing in
our own juice, and evermore
dragged into the swamp of all
those who, like ourselves, were
thrown by the splendid force of
the proletarian assault into the
refuse heap of the past epoch,
into the counter Revolutionary
world of the white guard emf
grants, beyond the grave. All the
thoughts and ideas of our Organi-
zation were reduced to the crea-
ton of the theology of reaction of
the bourgeois restoration, and
against Socialism All counter
revolutionary anti-Party groups
united together politically in an
anti-Party underground, compact
reactiOnary mass. We became the
conductors Of the counter-revolu-
tionary wrath and hatred of the
dregs of the exploiting classes"
Bear Political Responsibility
1t is not accidental that thi.
poisoned atmosphere of the zinovie1
underground group with its really
fascist methods of struggle anC
open and terroristic franz of mine
grew and strengthened to the poinr
where it resulted in the MURDER O.
Comrade Kirov.
All of the accused, both thos,
brought to trial in the present case
and those whose case is in the stag,
Of further investigation, speak O
the inevitability of such frame O.
mind which logically was prepared
by the entire character and conten
of the underground activities of The
zinoviev clique.
Tsarkov, another of the accused
also speaks about this. He directly
connected Nicholaev's shot with thu
extremist" as he expressed it
frame of mind"
Another of the Zinoviev group
Bashkirov, declared: 'Nicholaev'
| shot resulted from the fact that h