"The trial will disclose and show to the whole world in all their nakedness the criminal deeds committed by the right and Trotskyist agents of the foreign intelligence services, They are spies, provocators, plotters with many years' record who learned their profession of murderers and poisoners from the Tzarist secret service and intelligence services of the instigators of war.
"They wanted to restore the capitalist system, to give up our happy, splendid. Fatherland to impenalists for destruction and plunder.
"The Soviet justice will say its decisive word and this will be the word of the people, vigilant "and merciless to its enemies, terrible in its hatred of them and great in its love for their free, independent, mighty, invincible Fatherland."
"Pravda" says, "Hundreds of millions of workers, peasants and honest intellectuals of the -whole world will shudder with indignation and abomination when they learn of the monstrous plot, of the nightmare of heart-sickening' crimes committed by the band of outrageous murderers and spies, by the Fascist plotters who united into the "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyists."
"The base plotters were exposed by the glorious organs of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the U.S.S.R. and are now brought to the trial spies that were for many years at the service of foreign intelligence services, Unforgettable, Dear Kirov"
"They have schemed, prepared and organized the murder of the beloved son of the Soviet people, the unforgettable, dear Kirov. They prepared attempts on the lives of the leaders of the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet Government. In their wolfish fury they have raised a hand on the fighters for communism devoted to the cause of the people, on the great Russian writer, Gorky.
"The murderers will pay dearly for the wonderful noble heads of comrades Kuibyshev, Monzinsky and Gorky. These murderers constituted a part of the devilish plan of enslavement of our Fatherland by capitalist plunderers, Trotsky, Bukharin, Rykov and other traitors have promised to the usurpers to secure the defeat of the Red Army and were preparing this defeat by disclosing military secrets, by espionage and diversionist and terroristic acts.
"After the murder of Kirov, after the assassination of—Kuibyshev, Menzhinsky and Gorky, they schemed the murder of millions of workers and peasants the destruction of Soviet towns, the ruin of Soviet plants and collective farms, "These degenerates are really monstrous and the Soviet court will undoubtedly deal with them according to their merits.
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