The Archive · 1938

Provincial Trials

Moscow, Mar. 7.

Simultaneously with the Moscow trial, several other Trotzkyist trials are going on in various parts of Soviet Russia. The Moscow press, is silent on the matter but details are revealed by the Soviet provincial press.

At Cheliabinsk, fourteen officials of a tractor factory are accused of "Trotzykism, while at Sima near Chita, eleven railway officials are charged with espionage on behalf of Japan. In the town of Komsomolsk bult by Communist youths in the Far East, seven young Communists including girls, are accused of having formed a Trotzkyist cell.

Seventeen members of the military garrison and four members of the local department of the Commissariat of the Interior at Petropalovsk in Kamchatka have been executed. for sabotage of the national defence and for undermining the Red Army.

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