SOCIAL PURGE
EXPLAINED BY M. STALIN United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph CnnrH.M LONDON, June 22. “The News Chronicle” says; “M. Stalin has issued a memorandunm on the subject of the executions on June 12, explaining his action, and contending that the purge increased Russia’s value as the 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 they desired to wreck Russia's alliance with the bourgeois Governments. Their political conception would result in the downfall of Soviet Russia. “The men were traitors, and therefore I struck.” Referring to doubts as to the genuiness of the “confessions," he declares that the readiness to confess was not understandable to those Ignorant of the Slav psychology.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20762, 24 June 1937, Page 9
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131SOCIAL PURGE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20762, 24 June 1937, Page 9
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