Zinovieff, Kamenev, Fourteen Others Executed: Leon Trotsky's Comments in Norway Moscow, Aug. 25.
Gregory Zinovieft' and Leo Kamenev, who made history as leaders of the Bolshevist revolution, were executed this morning, with 14 other alleged counter-revotutionaries, on charges of conspiracy against The accused met their death before 2 firing-squad atter the presidium of the Central Executive Committee had rejected their appeal for clemency.
The condemned men were alleged, among other things, to have been implicated in the assassination 1994 of M. Kirov, one of M. Stalin's chief lieutenants, and in a plot to murder the Soviet Dictator himself, Hence Stalin is trying to stifle in blood all opposition. From now on all opposition will be called Trotsky-Jat and Trotskyiem will be the excuse for terror. Death sentences will replace prisons and concentration. car The latest trial will not be the Jost of its kind, MIN, "Trotsky said predicted a dark future for Russia. "There can be no stopping along this path. From now on trials. will be of the greatest Importance to the political Life of the Soviet Union. The struggle between the people and the bureaucracy will Become steadily sharper.'—United Press,
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