SOVIET’S BLACK LIST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 12, 15 January 1932, Page 5

SOVIET’S BLACK LIST

OPPONENTS OF LEADERS “HERESY HUNT” ORDERED RIGA, Jan. 4. The Central Communist Committee has instituted a “sharp purge,” especially in the upper ranks, in order to “crush the incipient revival of antiLeninism and anti-Stalinism among the influcntials, especially those affected with, rotten Liberalism, contraband Trotzkyism and the falsification of Bolshevik history.” The “purge” must be completed by January 30, when the committee will meet to consider the results. It was Stalin, who is SecretaryGeneral of the Central Committee, who first pointed out th. reappearance of “old heresies,” whereupon his henchmen began a heresy-hunt among professors of the higher educational establishments throughout Russia. This resulted in 20 being rapidly black listed and three summarily expelled. The Soviet newspapers declare that heretics have been trying to undermine the latest official financial, commercial, wages and housing policy, and also plotting against Stalin. Riotous scenes accompanied the “unmasking” of Professor Nefedoff, of the Financial' Institute, Leningrad. Nefedoff flung inkwells and other missiles at his accusers, breaking the head of Comrade Silin, who had opened the attack.