The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-18
Workers of Many Cities Will Meet to Honor Lenin
More Admit Guilt
At Soviet Trial
(Continned ION Paqe y

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able obstacles in collectivization
and rejoiced beforehand.
Il repeat, we regarded collectiv-
ization of agriculture, not as pro-
letarian revolutionaries, but as
enemies Of the working class. We
the same attitude to-
wards industrialization. We utilized
all negative results for struggling
against the Soviet power, and if such
facts did not exist, We tried to
invent them.
The court witnesses how far we
went in our appraisals of the great
est achievements Of the Party and
the working class.
With regard to questions Of
inner party democracy, we most
maliciOusly criticized the existing
Party regime. We did not see
what every rank and file member
saw. We did not notice the growth
in the consciousness Of strength
Of the unity of the Party. We
addressed Stain with malicious
counter revolutionary inslnua-
ti0ns. We accused the Party
leadership that it did not accept
measures to activize the interna-
tiOnal working class movement.
We slanderously asserted that the
Central Committee handicapped
the development Of this move
ment.
TN 1884, Zinoviev accused the
Central Committee, declaring that
the initiative of the leadership of
the working class movement in
France was given over to the Sec
ond International. The court sees
that we differed in no way from the
International counter-revolutionary
rogues.
I'VE, along with these rogues,
waited for failure. We cherished
hopes that this failure would hap
pen. We stewed in our own Juice,
poisoning our convi9tions, and the
convictions of our adherents with
our ter-revolutionary views.
We pulled outrageous gossip, and
it among the masses.
We cherished our hopes for split
in the leadership of the Party. BY
this frame of mind, we gave hope
to the people connected with us.
when we were accused OF a
terrorist frame of mind, / firmly
declare: Yes, we must bear the
responsibility for 1t because the
poison which we spread among
those surrounding us during the
years prompted the commitment
Of the crime-the murder Of KirOv.
TN his statement zinoviev said
he feared the idea of being on the
level with the murderers and ban
dts. I also fear it. But as I said
already, Zinoviev and Kamenev, as
well as myself, and others, are guilty
thereof; that they Systematically
poisoned peoples consciousness and
now must bear the responsibility for
it.
I'VE got so used to lying to the
Party that we couldn't any longer
distinguish truth from falsehood
When zinoviev from the tribune OF
the Seventh Party Congress an
alyzed the counter revolutionary
nature of our positions from 1925 to
1927 that was only half the truth
The second half which was miss
ing was the fact that enemies re-
manned within our Party, and that
those enemies preserved Party cards
with a view Of fighting against the
Party. Zinoviev should have stated
this to the congress.
1T is also my fault that while
being at the Congress as a guest
no one would prevent me from dis
closing the counter revolutionary
activities. zinoviev in his statement
at the investigation speaking OF
subjective loyalty to the interests OF
the working class, admits the error
in principle Of dividing subjective
from objective.
I'VE were not loyal to the work
ing class. Nothing hampered us
from seeing what was occurring in
the country. While even the en-
emies of the working class we're ad-
hitting the victories, our blindness
and wrath against the Leadership
of the Party handicapped us from
seeing these victories. Our wrath
against the leadership of the work
ing class is not an objective but
subjective matter.
Il request the court to believe me
that l sincerely repent the heavy
crimes I committed since 1925, anc
which fatally led to the murder Of
Kiroy.
Il will take any decision of the
court as deserved punishment fol
my criminal activities and my en-.
tire sorrow will be mitigated firstly
by the fact that I sincerely forever
broke off my counter REVOLUTIONARY
past. Secondly, by the fact thai
the cause and the fate of the work.
Ing class is in the true hands Of
the Central Committee of our Party
and its leader Of the Party, Com,
rade Stain.