TO THE SECRETARIES OF OBKOMS, KRAIKOMS OF THE VKP(b)

AND CC OF NATIONAL COMMUNIST PARTIES

In recent times, wrecking activity by enemies of the people in the area of agriculture has been uncovered in krais, oblasts, and republics, directed at undermining the economy of collective farms and provoking kolkhozniki into discontent against the Soviet government through a whole system of mockery and abuse.

The CC considers it a significant shortcoming in the leadership of the effort to crush the wreckers in agriculture that the liquidation of wreckers is carried out only in closed proceedings through the organs of the NKVD, and that kolkhozniki are not being mobilized for the struggle against sabotage and its perpetrators.

Considering it absolutely necessary to politically mobilize kolkhozniki around the work being carried out to destroy the enemies of the people in agriculture, the CC VKP(b) obliges obkoms, kraikoms, and CC of national communist parties to organize in each oblast, by district, two to three open show trials against enemies of the people -- wreckers in agriculture who have wormed their way into district party, soviet, and agricultural organs (MTS workers and raizo officials, chairmen of district executive committees, district committee secretaries, and so on), and to give wide coverage to the course of the court proceedings in the local press.

Secretary of the CC VKP(b)

Stalin

Lubyanka. Stalin i Glavnoe upravlenie gosbezopasnosti NKVD. 1937-1938. P. 298.

RGANI. F. 89. Op. 48. D. 12. L. 1.