DEATH PENALTY CERTAIN
ANTI-SOVIET PLOTTERS “HONOUR TO KILL STALIN’’ INDICTMENT OF TROTSKY (Eloc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 20, 3 p.rn.) MOSCOW, Ang. 19. The death penalty is regarded as certain following the plea of guilty of Zinoviev and his associates, Kamenev, Smirnov and Ilolamann, to the indictment which stated that they inspired a German. Fritz David, in an attempt to shoot M. Stalin at a congress in July of 1935The plot to assassinate M. Stalin allegedly’ was formulated in Zinoviev s flat where Zinoviev is declared to have staled : “It is an honour to kill Stalin. ” Fitz David’s alleged confession stated that Zinoviev’s indecisiveness and wishywashyness could be blamed for the fact that Stalin was still among the living. Tlie indictment declared that M, Leon Trotsky’s main idea was to disorganise the reel army and to kill Stalin. This was the gist of every message from M. Trotsky to Russia.
AT. Trotsky, making a statement in Norway, said: “Fver since my entry in the revolutionary movement, I have been an uncompromising opponent of individual terror as a method of struggle. Since coming to Norway, I have had no connections with the Soviet union.’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 13
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195DEATH PENALTY CERTAIN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 13
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