To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cunn Dany News"
Sin—The controversy about "'prosecuting the dead" seems to mo quite irrelevant as it is obviously duc to misunderstanding or misreporting of 3 few ames and might well end at But what is on everybody's lip in connection with the new Moscow mass trial—what is the actual mean-of this clumsy murder story rial" with formidable but hardly creditable accusations against the former elite of the Bolshevik party ow termed as spies, wreckers and What is the real alm of M.
Stalin?
The mass trials and mass executions—Zinovieff and Kemenev, Mai shal Toukhachevsky and other generals—Sokolnikoff, Radek, Piatakof? and others—all these "million dollar" Productions of the Soviet judicial Hollywood had at the bottom one aim—to charge the accused withsresponsibility for the ever increasing.
numbers and volume,—signs of the complete bankruptey of the Soviet regime.
Whatever happened in Soviet Union fag a result of the senseless political and economic experimenting-it is not the impeccable M, Stalin and his im= mediate environment who are responsible for ull the ruin. suffering and degradation of the unfortunate country, it is the "spies, wreckers a the agents of fascist countries picked up probably at random on Personal. reasons.
With the aid of the powerful propaganda system this version responsibility is hammered into the minds of the poor, terrorised Russian people as well as abroad where it finds enough naive people to believe The most interesting item in the indictment of the present mass trial is the allegation that the accused, ac= ting on behalf of certain countries, were scheming 0 sopnrate from Russia a number of its rich possessions—Ukenina, Caucasus, Turkestan and Far Eastern provinees, "To me it looks ax. piece de résise tance of M. Vyshinsky's indictment and this is why:
"The unbelievable cruelty of the Soviet regime in a heterorenous country Tike Russia quite logically produced the very acute centrifugal movements—away from Moscow! There is nothing surprising that certain nelahbouring countries take interest in that and in some or un other way are encouraging these epatatist movements. The ever=srowing menace of war and the obvious weakening of the Red Army by the mass purges make it quite clear even to M, Stalin and his clique that they stand no chance of successfully defending their border possessions. Tu spite of all new songs about " the "Socialist Fatherland" and the revived adoration of the seat national poet Pushkin they are facing the uly prospect of utter defeat and dismemberment of the Soviet Union.
"They know that, but they will not hear of holding themselves responsible for that. Not M, Stalint The responsibility for the national defeat, shame and humiliation will with these defendants whose pittful "confessions create so much amazement and bewilderment in the countries outside the Soviet "para Shanghai, Mar. 4
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