RUSSIAN EXECUTIONS
STALIN’S EXPLANATION
“TO WRECK ALLIANCE”
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(Recd. June 23, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 22.
The “News-Chronicle” says: Stalin issued a memorandum on the subject of the executions on June 12, explaining his action, and contending the purge had increased Russia’s value as an ally, strengthened the Soviet, and left the morale of the Red Army unshaken. He states that those executed were not charged with treason in the vulgar sense, but they desired to wreck Russia’s alliance with bourgeois Governments. Their political conception would result in the downfall of Soviet Russia. “The men were traitors, therefore I struck.”
Referring to the doubts of the genuineness of the “confessions,” he declares that a readiness to confess was not understandable to those ignorant of Slav psychology.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 7
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