STALIN EXPLAINS ACTION
RECENT EXECUTIONS PURGE INCREASED RUSSIA’S VALUE AS ALLY [United Press Association- By hic-ti,. Teletrapb—Copyright I (Received 23rd June, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, 22nd June. The “Chronicle” says that Stalin has issued a memorandum on the subject of the recent executions, explaining his action and contending that the purge increased Russia’s value as an ally and a strengthened Soviet was left, with the morale of the Red Army unshaken. He states that those executed were not charged with treason in the vulgar sense, but desired to wreck Russia’s alliance with bourgeois governments. “Their political conception would have resulted in the downfall of Soviet Russia. The men were traitors and therefore I struck.” Referring to doubts as to the genuineness of the “confessions,” Stalin declares that the readiness to confess was not understandable to those ignorant of Slav psychology.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 23 June 1937, Page 5
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