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SECRETARY OF THE CC AUCP(b)

Comrade STALIN

I am sending a summary of intelligence reports - responses among the scientific intelligentsia, press workers, art workers and student youth in Moscow to the process of the "right-Trotskyist bloc".

PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE UNION OF THE SSR

COMMISSIONER GENERAL FOR STATE SECURITY

EZHOV

Top secret

On the response to the trial of the “Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites”

FELDMAN (professor of medicine). “For a doctor, a patient, especially after a long treatment or operation, becomes family, friends. The more terrible and incomprehensible is what these doctors did. These are typical saboteurs, enemies. True, PLETNEV is a member of the Black Hundreds, but for a doctor to commit such crimes, this is unheard of in the whole world and in all ages. Levin has two sons. One of them is also a doctor, did he really teach his son such methods of wrecking, fascist work! We must be proud of our NKVD. Here's the job. There is no such apparatus in any country as our NKVD. This process will make a lot of noise abroad. After all, the fascist press will write everything in a way that is beneficial to it and will pour dirt on our country.”

BLAGOVOLIN (professor of medicine). "It incredible story disgraced us doctors, the sick and so little believe us, and now they will not believe in any way.

If it really turns out to be true in court that TROTSKY has been a spy since 1921, then this is a terrible thing. After all, he was a drug addict at the time. How he sold LENIN, STALIN and the Red Army. Ezhov is a genius. It was he who discovered all the activities of Yagoda and other enemies.

DOCTORS. Source "Ants". In connection with the forthcoming process of the "bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" various conversations are going on everywhere. Doctors are very interested in this process for obvious reasons. Sanitary doctor GOROBOV, who works in the All-Union State Sanitary Inspectorate of the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR, in the sanitary and hygienic department, says: “It is hardly possible to believe that Professor PLETNEV could become a political fighter and risk murder for political purposes. Everyone knows that he is an incredible egoist and a completely unprincipled person who can only act for fierce selfish purposes and in such a way as not to endanger his own person in any way.

GOROBOV comes from a family of wealthy merchants.

Doctor KULYANIN, who works in the epidemiological department of the All-Union State Sanitary Inspectorate, expresses surprise that the enemies of the people, the former People's Commissar of Health, KAMINSKY and METALLIKOV, did not get into the present trial, while RAKOVSKY, who worked together with KAMINSKY, did.

RUTSHTEIN (doctor). Source "Medvedev". March 1st In the evening, the source was at a party at RUTSHTEIN Grigory Moiseevich, lives on Petrovsky Boulevard at 17.

Touching upon the conversation about the forthcoming trial on March 2, Dr. RUTSHTEIN said: “All this is fiction, of course, the broad masses do not know everything, but doctors, when they read the message, are perplexed.” At the same time, he told a fictitious slanderous version that he allegedly knew very well that MENZHINSKY was impotent and due to syphilis he had progressive paralysis.

“KAZAKOV treated MENZHINSKY with lysates, which at the beginning of treatment give a rapid rise in energy, but subsequently progressive paralysis. This is such a disease that ends in death, so there can be no talk of any villainous killing - also about KUIBYSHEV and GORKY. KUIBYSHEV came home after a heart attack and died immediately. The doctor who arrived had only to ascertain death, and it is not clear where there could be mortification.

Well, there is no need to talk about GORKY at all. On the basis of a lung disease, GORKY lived for a long time in Italy. GORKY did not have one lung, and at his age it is quite natural that he died with the first lung disease.

KUPALOV P. S. (Professor). “Wouldn't it have been better to wait with such a process? And why keep it open? In the current acuteness of the international situation, when England has turned directly towards Germany, when the right-wing radicals in France are strenuously attacking the popular front, will not such a process play a negative role as an additional element repelling the democratic West from us?

ANOKHIN (professor). “After the Pyatakov trial there was quite a bit of information from abroad that the trial made a negative impression there. Even many sincere friends of the USSR then hesitated, were somewhat disoriented. In my opinion, the moment now chosen is very difficult.

Of course, whoever decides to proceed with the trial has a clearer view of the international horizon than I do, but it seems that it would be more useful to wait or not to hold the trial openly.

Now the right-wingers in France will attack the socialists. You want to merge with the Communists, to form a united front and so on, but look, they—the Communists—cannot come to an agreement among themselves, there is constant fighting and splitting. After all, indeed, the accused, if we discard the old tsarist agents, were once communists, were part of the leadership, and the motives, the roots of their betrayal are sometimes difficult for us to understand, and even more so for a Westerner.

KARPOV M. S. (Professor of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy). “Now a real revolution is taking place, the bowels of the party are being stirred up. The best people they carry their heads on the chopping block, not wanting to submit to the ruling tyrants. They seized the associates of LENIN, those who were supposed to inherit him. The point, of course, is to eliminate political competitors. The accusation of espionage was brought, firstly, in order to denigrate people, and secondly, this was done in the same way as the accusation of doctors of killing famous people, according to the well-known rule that the more absurd the accusation, the easier it is to believe it. The leadership of the CPSU (b) was seized by animal fear, so they mow people right and left, leaving only nonentities. But all this will end badly, after all, the state cannot hold on to executions and arrests alone. The Communists, that is, many of them, do not understand that they have tormented the country, that they have bored it to death.

The accusation is worded very stupidly: it is said that this group wanted to kill LENIN, STALIN, SVERDLOV, but did not kill him, although the defendants had hundreds of opportunities to do so. Take BERRY - this one could go everywhere. And LEVIN is a Kremlin doctor, this one walked around the Kremlin the way we walk at home, and, finally, he could apply more “subtle methods” of treatment to any of his patients. However, none of that happened."

KHVOSTOV V. M. (Professor of the Pedagogical Faculty of Moscow State University). “The process of the Right-Trotskyist bloc has an internal political significance. We must somehow report to the people for the large number of those arrested, we must somehow explain to the party what the members of its Central Committee are accused of.”

RUBCHINSKY Z. M. (senior engineer of the plant named after Kirov). “Now, more than ever, the rear of the Soviet Union is weak, and it is weakening all the time. Arrested such people as RYKOV, BUKHARIN and others. Now abroad, probably, there is an incredible howl.

It is very interesting to get to the process and see how the defendants will behave. Well, RYKOV, BUKHARIN are ideological people, but here is how PLETNEV, KAZAKOV, who until now have been far from politics, will behave.

VOROBYOV (architect). “I don't particularly believe in the allegations made in the Prosecutor's report. Many of these accusations are exaggerated. I admit that MENZHINSKY was poisoned by BERRY for careeristic purposes, but no one will believe in GORKY's violent death - the old man was ill for decades.

EFIMOVICH (architect). “At the top of the party there is a fierce struggle for power, and not for the general line of the party - hence all these stunning high-profile trials that defeated the Stalinist group over the defeated Bukharin group.”

MODEL (engineer). “The last group of “old men” from the Leninist guards went on trial. All these abominations would soon end, so that one could breathe freely.

ALEXANDROV M. V. (teacher MAI). “These are people of the right opposition, the last composition of the Council of People's Commissars - only people's commissars and prominent scientists. This process should be reflected in international position, inside the country, he excites the masses. Now process after process will follow - RUKHIMOVICH - the defense industry, the MEZHLAUK brothers.

EPPELBAUM (laboratory assistant at the Mendeleev Institute, member of the CPSU (b). " thinking people differ in the ability to doubt the proposed material, and therefore I also doubt the message of the Prosecutor's Office about the upcoming trial. I know RYKOV well, he is a highly cultured person. RYKOV, after all, was part of LENIN. BUKHARIN and YAGODA are also great people, they are pupils and comrades-in-arms of LENIN. It's a pity that such people are dying."

MASLOV I. N. (Director of the laboratory of baking, member of the CPSU (b)). “I thought that after the decision of the plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, all these things would end, but it turns out quite the opposite. Arrests continue. The impression is that all this before the war they want to clear the ranks, all those who can be dangerous in one form or another are removed. Just think - BUKHARIN, RYKOV, CHERNOV, Grinko - is it really true? I can't believe it, and there's a lot that I don't understand. We live like on a volcano. On the one hand, they stroke us communists, and on the other hand, they wash us as soon as possible. Hard to work. There is little substantiation of the message of the Prosecutor's Office. After all, Bukharin and Rykov have been in prison for more than a year. Why are their cases taking so long? Unclear".

STEINBERG (People's Artist of the Republic). “When I read in the newspaper about PLETNEV and others, I was stunned and I think that it’s a pity for bullets on such a bastard, but simply take them to the old chopping block to the Kremlin walls and cut off their heads.”

BLOCK D. S. (composer). “Of course, they must be shot mercilessly, even more - burned at the stake. After all, Dr. LEVIN and Professor PLETNEV were surrounded by great attention from the government. What did they lack? As for KAZAKOV, he is a criminal of the 96th test, I never believed him - a dirty person. KRYUCHKOV is also a repulsive figure - a careerist, a traitor - it was clear to everyone.

ZHAROV (Honored Artist of the Republic, Chamber Theatre). “I am happy that I staged a play for the process” confrontation". She is very timely. When I play, I feel the role of an investigator and, frankly, I would change my profession as an actor to an investigator of the Prosecutor's Office or the NKVD. So deep is my hatred for BUKHArin, RYKOV, ROSENGOLTS and other reptiles. I believe that this process will show Europe how strong we are, how we can identify our enemies and, despite all this rubbish, we still thrive.

Nebolsin VV (Honored Artist of the Republic, Bolshoi Theater), “It is impossible to talk calmly about what these criminals did. Kazakov always made a dirty impression on me. This man, apparently, had nothing sacred.

GAUK (Honored Artist of the Republic, conductor). “It is a pity that the scoundrel TROTSKY was once let go abroad and given the opportunity to engage in dirty deeds against the Soviet people. As can be seen, Bukharin and Rykov contributed to Trotsky's departure abroad. What a blessing that Comrade STALIN was not ill, otherwise these scoundrels LEVIN and PLETNEV could do with him, as with MENZHINSKY, KUIBYSHEV and GORKY.

MELIK-PASHAYEV (Honored Art Worker, conductor). “What I read in the newspapers is terrible, and these doctors, they must be burned on fire, because they resurrected the Spanish Inquisition. They should answer the same. They could make all kinds of poisons with their knowledge of medicine and poison many valuable lives with a slowly poisoning agent.

STEPANOVA (Honored Artist of the Republic). “The announcement of the trial made a deep impression on me. This is a document of extreme political cynicism, a document of exceptional distortion, for example, everything that in the notice refers to LENIN and the beginning of the revolution.

If the "confession" of the accused is human insanity (it is true, it is not known how it was torn out, for we know about the methods of the investigation), then the accusation itself is even greater insanity. We know RYKOV as a wonderful big man, as a man of great honesty and love for the people. If not for the tragedy modern day, it would be ridiculous to believe in the guilt of such a person as RYKOV. Such a horror to live in our days of slander and meanness, when they try to justify their offensive with lies.

Of course, now you can pull the dead out of the coffins and declare them dead. But who would believe that GORKY, sick with tuberculosis and living to the age of 70, barely supporting his life, fell victim to terrorists - old members of the party or people of science, like PLETNEV.

TAIROV A. Ya. (People's Artist of the Republic, Chamber Theater). “This is monstrous, and so much so that the human mind can neither comprehend nor accept it. I cannot understand the motives of the doctors involved in the conspiracy, except for PLETNEV, who has long been known to be a bastard.

I don't know LEVIN very well, but KACHALOV literally prayed for him. Moreover, GORKY preferred to be treated only by LEVIN, who often went to see him in Italy. So I can't understand psychological reasons participation in this crime of doctors. Then I cannot understand the roots that moved the rest of the conspirators. Thirst for power? But many of them are people's commissars, members of the Central Committee. What did they need?

GEDIKKE I. I. (artist of the Moscow Art Theater). “Now just sit down somewhere and don’t show your nose. Most happy man, is the smallest. When they finally quarrel at the top and at least an approximate order is established - then go, walk. In the meantime, if the head is sweet - sit and do not breathe.

MINEEV A. K. (soloist of the Bolshoi Theater). “And all this is nonsense! JULES VERNE! 1001 nights! All this about the murders of GORKY, MENZHINSKY and KUIBYSHEV is made up! And for what it was invented, of course, we do not know. Well, why kill GORKY, he was already an old man. Or MENZHINSKY—after all, MENZHINSKY had gone mad, and KUIBYSHEV was also an elderly man. Well, at the trial they will confess, because it’s under “influence”!”

SHILLING (artist of the Moscow Art Theater). “I don't understand one thing. After all, GORKY and MENZHINSKY and KUIBYSHEV were opened after death. The autopsy was attended not only by the now arrested doctors, but also by many others. Why, then, was the murder not established? I am always jarred by these surprises of ours, which are revealed as a system a lot of time later.

VERBITSKY (Honored Artist of the Republic, Moscow Art Theater). “Whoever is now declared a spy and an enemy of the people, I will not be surprised at anything. Pillars so high fall that if even higher ones stagger, nothing will surprise us. It's such a cruel time."

NOVIKOV (artist of the Moscow Art Theater). “Terrible things are happening to us. Some kind of continuous war. It's scary if they really did everything that they are credited with. It is no less terrible if now they are shot for this, somehow it does not fit in the head that people like YAGODA, KRESTINSKY would be shot. Yes, this is a real internal war.

KNIPPER-CHEKHOV ( People's Artist USSR, Moscow Art Theater). “GORKY, then why would they. Some fantasy. Horror Theatre. As the saying goes, "tradition is fresh, but hard to believe." Now is the time to believe everything. The time is such that it is better to die.

LEVIN (Honored Artist of the Republic). March 1st at a collective rally symphony orchestra regarding the report of the USSR Prosecutor's Office about the forthcoming trial of the “bloc of Rights and Trotskyites”, P. A. LEVIN spoke and said: “I am against their execution.” To the questions of the rally participants GATSKO, MULLER and others, how he motivates this, LEVIN replied: “I am a straightforward person, I say what I think, I am generally against execution.”

DRAMATISTS. Source "Dunaev". February 28 p. In the premises of the section of playwrights of the Union of Soviet Writers, during the compilation of a wall newspaper, between the playwrights GORODETSKII Sergey Mitrofanovich, ARGO (GOLDENBERG) Abram Markovich, GALITSKII (GOLTENBERG) Yakov Markovich and "D" the conversation turned to the restoration of the playwright Afinogenov in the party.

“D” said that this restoration of Afinogenov was completely incomprehensible to him. A person has been accused of many sins that he actually committed, and suddenly he is restored and becomes completely clean.

ARGO said the following to this: “The question of Afinogenov is too petty and uninteresting to talk about it a lot. Afinogenov is just a petty scoundrel and a careerist who will henceforth come out dry from all the alterations. I'm concerned about something else. I didn't know RYKOV, TOMSKY and the others, but I knew BUKHARIN. We are our own people here and we can speak frankly: BUKHARIN was a most interesting, charming, intelligent person, he was a favorite of the Party, a favorite of LENIN. History speaks of this, and history is always impartial and based on facts, and now I hear that BUKHARIN is against the Party, against LENIN, that he is a bandit and so on; it doesn't fit in my cranium."

GORODETSKII objected to this ARGO, he said the following: “I also knew BUKHARIN and believe me, ARGO, he really was a vile and base person. I don't know, of course, the whole scope of his party affairs and relations, but from the petty matters of life, from the affairs of the Izvestia newspaper, I can firmly say that he is a dishonorable person. But we will hear soon interesting news. It turns out that our former General Commissar of State Security, a member of the Central Committee, and so on and so forth, was a major agent, a provocateur of the tsarist secret police, and, together with our respected writer Kasatkin, he failed underground printing houses and betrayed revolutionaries.

Here the work on the layout of the newspaper and the distribution of material interrupted this conversation.

March 1st Mr. "D" met ARGO at a billiard tournament in the House Soviet writer and asked him: "Well, what do you say about the report of the Prosecutor's Office?" ARGO answered this: “Sasha, I’ll tell you frankly, I don’t believe it and I won’t believe it. And, frankly, every morning when I wake up now, I say “why the hell did I wake up, it was so nice to sleep and not see, not hear, not experience that bad (it was said much stronger and more obscene) that is happening with us.” It's really disgusting and disgusting."

“D” hears such moods from ARGO for the first time in a six-year acquaintance.

A. P. MATSKIN ( theater critic). “The whole point of the trial is to show that all the defendants were connected by a single chain from BUKHARIN to LEVIN. The announcement of a number of defendants as agents of the Okhrana is a method of "mobilizing the fury of the masses." It is impossible that they would not have been exposed for such a long time.

WRITERS. Source "Sorrentian". In the literary environment, the news of Gorky's death is the main topic of conversation. GORKY's age and his long illness suggest that his death was not unexpected. However, it is said that the doctors treating him could almost imperceptibly cause a severe deterioration in his condition and death. For example, why was he, sick with influenza, taken to Moscow, this was said by Vs. IVANOV.

PAUSTOVSKY told me that GORKY's death was similar in circumstances to the death of PUSHKIN, who was also healed by the doctor Arendt.

In conversations with E. PETROV and SLAVIN, the main topic was how the process would respond abroad. Will it not worsen the situation of our friends, will it not provoke new embittered attacks from our enemies. The philistine environment abroad does not understand that everything that is happening in our country now is the result of a long struggle within the party, the struggle of the Leninists against the Trotskyists and the Rights. Abroad, everything that happens in our country seems to be a struggle of personalities, and not a struggle of ideological people with people who, in embitterment, have descended to crimes. It was also said that abroad this would once again give an opportunity to talk about our weakness, that in the current situation we are not a force capable of offering resistance.

During the break of the rally in the Writers' Union, all kinds of reinsurers, such as FINCA, TEARS ON, were especially excited, who were indignant at the crimes of the accused too loudly, so that they were listened to around, thus testifying to their reliability. Cunning people like PAVLENKO tried very carefully to extinguish the struggle going on within the union, the struggle against STAVSKY. Pointing to great value process, PAVLENKO said that, they say, our writing is unimportant petty deeds, in comparison with those events of great importance that we are witnessing. In other words, all our minor, from PAVLENKO's point of view, disagreements should drown in the huge echo that the trial received. GERASIMOV drew my attention to this speech by PAVLENKO, she said that such a speech was very beneficial for STAVSKY.

FEDIN K. (writer). “Now we have adopted a resolution on the trial of BUKHARINO, RYKOV and others. This is the third process, not counting the many closed ones. Each time it turns out that the “glorious Commissars of Internal Affairs” have uncovered a counter-revolutionary conspiracy. And now, by the way, people who were at the head of the NKVD are sitting in the dock. Those that have now been revealed have nothing in common with the previous apparatus. When the conspiracy of ZINOVIEV and KAMENEV was uncovered, they also wrote "about the glorious people's commissars". A new cohort came to the NKVD and they began to shoot the old ones. Thoughts come to mind that people from the NKVD are doomed to extermination. The NKVD is like the Ministry of the Interior, where ministers are sure to be killed. Each successor removes its predecessor.

CARIKAS (writer, member of the Communist Party of Hungary). “Crazy fantastic accusation. Even a dog cannot swallow such an accusation that GORKY and others were poisoned. The message of the Prosecutor's Office is weak. As a result, these mass arrests have replaced the entire economic apparatus with new ones, the training of which will cost the Soviet government dearly.

SHKLOVSKY (writer and critic). V. KATAEV (writer). On March 1, the source was at the apartment of SHKLOVSKY (a writer and critic) and found him talking with Valentin KATAEV. The conversation was about the upcoming process.

SHKLOVSKY said: “The secrets of the Madrid court are literally being revealed. In the most advanced country in the world, it suddenly turned out that some kind of camarilla was in power.”

V. KATAEV. “When GORKY was dying, Alexei TOLSTOY told me at a meeting with me that something that was going on in this little house on Nikitskaya was so disgusting, so suspicious. The sick great man's bed was surrounded by mysterious whispers and combinations. Sometimes it was hard to believe that he was dying here great writer and an artist. No writer in the world has ever been in such a strange environment.

And I also think that everything was possible in this small house, up to the murder.

When I was in Paris, I met an émigré journalist SAVICH. And so, when I once walked with SAVICH in Paris, I met POZNER (also an emigrant writer). POZNER wanted to approach us, but SAVICH signaled to him not to do this. I inquired from SAVICH what was the matter, and he described Pozner to me in very unflattering tones.

Later I met POZNER on the street, he began to tell what he was doing and where it was published, he said that he was connected with GORKY and BUDBERG. Then he asked me: “How are Lyapa (AVERBAKH) doing,” he told me that he studied with AVERBAKH at school and knows him very well. Then I already understood that there were some connections between these emigrant circles and Leopold AVERBACH. And all this is intertwined around GORKY. In the light of the current reports, everything becomes clear.

I ask myself why Yagoda could have killed GORKY. Well, he removed MENZHINSKY as an opponent. MENZHINSKY shielded him with himself. He was a man high culture. And BERRY is FUSHE. Why did he have to remove GORKY. And I believe that since relations between Yagoda and GORKY have deteriorated lately, Yagoda might be afraid that GORKY, to put it in Odessa, "will drop STALIN on him." That's the reason I see it."

“The rally was bad and most of the speeches were colorless and unsuccessful. People spoke reluctantly, like, for example, PAVLENKO and SOBOLEV, while KIRSANOV simply grimaced. The appeal, written on behalf of the writers, is very scholastically written in newspaper, standard, stenciled language. This is not how an appeal should be made on behalf of writers and artists. In the end, I do not want to subscribe to it. Why put signatures under a document about a colossal event, the meaning of which we do not understand. While the struggle was going on within the party, where we saw one camp and another, we were not involved in this. We stood aside and through the eyes of the artist tried to determine and understand the meaning of what was happening. Now we do not see this open struggle. Everything happens behind a thick veil. And now, when the terrible final unfolds, for some reason we are attracted, we must give our signatures. And we don't know what's wrong. And do those who are in charge know what process is going on in the revolution, why so many people have to be put in the dock and shot. A terrible thing has happened - the death of a great undaunted party is happening.

The source continued the conversation with SHKLOVSKY on the way to the dacha at st. Gangway. SHKLOVSKY said:

“GORKY was undoubtedly killed, because no government could ever announce that a great writer was killed if it were not true. But who killed GORKY—that is the question. I admit that KRYUCHKOV did this, because KRYUCHKOV is a real bandit. Soviet writers knew that a bandit stood between them and Gorky. A lot of dark nests started up in Gorky's circle. But whether KRYUCHKOV did it on Yagodin's orders is unknown. The time has come to remove BERRY for the crime he committed, and I can simply attribute GORKY to him.

We live in a time where no one can envy us. We are very sick and very hard. It is impossible to live like this and not understand anything of what is happening. We are people who are several heads below the events. Events are flying over our heads, but falling fragments sometimes hit our head. And the reason for the fall of fragments on a particular head is unknown. Everything seems to be random. It is unlikely that even those standing at the top know what is happening and why there is such a need to resort to such sharp measures. It seems to me that they, too, are a blind instrument of history, like all the great men of history. Neither Robespierre nor Napoleon knew why they acted this way and not otherwise, and they did not take into account what would come out of all their actions. History, no matter how much you study it, will not teach you anything ...

Everything will end in death. Everyone will die in this fight. Those who rule and those who obey will perish. The right and the wrong will perish. There will be a day when glorious Troy perishes.

How should we react when we see that a whole new society that has developed around the tsarist regime is perishing. This society was created around the party. And now we see that the entire leadership of the Party is perishing in some kind of mutual struggle. It is unlikely that the matter is in the duel between STALIN and TROTSKY - this is only a form of expression of the struggle. We love our country. It would be difficult for us to even wish for another, and therefore it hurts us a lot. Let everything remain as it is, but let there be no such political twitching, when everyone is screwed into the screw of political events and everything is resolved by such a terrible process. I love this system, I like our party, we have a good government, good army, good society. I want to see our system untainted by anything.”

SHKLOVSKY said that he had seen KOLTSOV:

“KOLTSOV has become smarter, stopped playing small, does not cling to trinkets. We talked with him about various things and, among other things, about why he was not nominated as a deputy to the Supreme Soviet. Koltsov told me: "I'm not the main one, I'm only KOLTSOV - you look at me like that." Around KOLTSOV, in my opinion, nothing happened, but in Spain things are going badly, and therefore KOLTSOV is not put on higher levels. But still they trust him. He writes articles on topics about decisions of the Central Committee, which are not yet available.

KOLTSOV told me how he once brought Andre MALREAU to GORKY, and how they immediately liked each other. At first BABEL was present, who was the translator, as well as LEATHER and KRYUCHKOV. These are the two agents who were watching GORKY, said KOLTSOV. GORKY sent KRYUCHKOV and Kozhanny out of the room, and they were very angry that they were not allowed to continue their observations. It is possible that they were watching Gorky as agents of different powers.

ILYENKOV V. P. (writer). “You experience a feeling of great joy that these reptiles are neutralized. Now, when the war is almost real, the unity of the people is more important than ever. They tried to demobilize the country, to betray us all. The subversive work of the enemies must be answered with good books, and the people must be rallied around the Party. We are all partly to blame for the fact that Yagoda's comrade-in-arms - AVERBAKH wielded in literature for so long and did harm. We were sometimes blind, soft-hearted and indifferent. Now the atmosphere is being cleared. It will be easier to live and work.”

BERMONT (journalist). “Azefshchina pales before Trotskyism. Think how thin and long the disguise is. If not for BERRY, everything would probably have been discovered a long time ago. It was he, probably, who recruited doctors in order to bring MENZHINSKY to the grave as soon as possible and remain chairman of the GPU. It's so vile and scary that sometimes you get lost and don't know who to trust. A lot of interesting things will also be revealed at the trial.”

LEVIN Boris ("Pravda"). At the exit of the defendants at the morning session on March 2, he told a source: “For some reason, I feel sorry for BUKHARIN. He is kind of pathetic, sitting and looking down. He, apparently, is ashamed and hurt for himself, who got into the company of such notorious scoundrels.

KRIGER Yevgeny (Izvestiya), Leaving the courtroom, said: “The devil knows, but maybe there is some truth in the words of KRESTINSKY. What will happen then? After all, foreign correspondents build their reports on his speech. I personally do not believe KRESTINSKY, but some doubt has settled in me.”

ITSKHOKIN (head of allied information TASS). When the source arrived at TASS from the meeting room, he asked the source: “How do the testimonies of the first defendants agree with the indictment?”

To the answer that KRESTINSKY was playing the fool and would not confess, Yitzkhokin said: “Well, this is how it begins. I wonder how it will end?

POKROVSKY (literary employee of the publishing house of the MK VKP (b)). "The process will bad influence on the authority of the Party, especially abroad—after all, KRESTINSKY, for example, is widely known abroad. The same must be said about the other defendants. The process will show that an atmosphere of conspiracies and palace coups reigns in the USSR.

CHUDNOVSKY (editor of the newspaper On Guard, member of the CPSU (b)). “The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) forbade all newspapers, except for Pravda, Izvestia and Krasnaya Zvezda, to publish editorials on the information of the Prosecutor's Office about the upcoming trial. The Central Committee is afraid that in the leading newspapers there may be attacks against the party leadership, that "the wrong" lines may be written by the friends of BUKHARIN and RYKOV, who still remain in the press.

KERZHENTSEV (source "Mogilevsky"), February 28 p. Mr. Kerzhentsev, in a conversation with a source, expressed the idea that the report of the Prosecutor's Office about the trial did not give anything new in comparison with what was supposed and was known to him from private sources. Then, however, he pointed out that three things were new:

1. That the process embraces the Rights together with the Trotskyists. Historically, KERZHENTSEV points out, this is correct, and the link between the Rights and the Trotskyists has been proven; but it seemed so far that practically it would be a process only of the right center. However, K. believes that the picture with the accession of the Trotskyists will be more convex;

2. Another new moment is the exposure of the conspiracy of BUKHARIN together with the Trotskyists during the period of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. In addition, until now it was known that BUKHARIN was plotting the arrest of LENIN, but now we are talking about the arrest and murder of LENIN, STALIN and SVERDLOV.

KERGENTSEV did not comment on this "new circumstance", but spoke of it in the tone of recognizing it as quite possible;

3. The question of TROTSKY's espionage activities in 1921 and 1926—Kerzhentsev again considered this quite probable, especially since TROTSKY's connection with such elements as PARVUS could, even before the revolution, create the prerequisites for TROTSKY's betrayal.

Kerzhentsev paid special attention to the role of provocateurs of the pre-revolutionary period. He noted that even before October there were many rumors about the presence of a large number of provocateurs among the Bolsheviks, and Trotsky himself also exaggerated these things very much. KERGENTSEV considers YAGODA "by type" to be very similar to a pre-revolutionary provocateur. Regarding the rest, he said he was "difficult" to say which of them could be placed in that category.

Regarding individual figures in the process, KERGENTSEV noted that the role of KRESTINSKY, who seemed to have truly departed, was not clear to him, and then CHERNOV. “Maybe he appears as a link with the Socialist-Revolutionaries?”

With regard to BUKHARIN and RYKOV, KERZHENTSEV limited himself to revealing his indignation and indignation, but in essence declined to talk about these candidates.

On the line of the doctors appearing in the trial, KERZHENTSEV noted that “in general, it was felt that the medical environment was very unfavorable” and that the Kremlin generally showed itself as an institution from which it was difficult to get out of the way. About Pletnev, Kerzhentsev said that already from his trial it was clear that it was “not a matter of rape” and that Pletnev, apparently, was a convinced monarchist and, possibly, a spy.

Speaking about the international consequences of the process, KERGENTSEV said that he did not share the fear that the process would cause cooling among the friends of the USSR, on the contrary, it would show that we were not joking and were seriously preparing for the most acute surprises.

Returning again to individual characters, KERZHENTSEV said that Grinko, by all accounts, was a Petliura officer. Further, KERGENTSEV said that in the process the figure of YAKOVLEV was expected, who turned out to be an old provocateur of the Yekaterinoslav Okhrana, but for some reason he was not there. RUDZUTAK was also expected, but his absence was natural, since he was the head of the Central Control Commission and a member of the PB.

Focusing on the figure of GORKY, KERZHENTSEV expressed the idea that his elimination could be dictated by considerations of the weakening of the ideological influence of the USSR among the Western intelligentsia, especially since GORKY at one time very much fluctuated in terms of assessing STALIN, and in recent years stood firm. However, KERZHENTSEV noted, it is difficult to guess here, since the only source is the testimony of the doctors who will be at the trial.

Concerning the consequences of the trial for inner-Party life, KERZHENTSEV expressed himself in the sense that, undoubtedly, shaking will rise again in some places in Party organizations, but that, on the whole, this will not violate the line of the February plenum. Moreover, according to KERZHENTSEV, the process will be carried out faster and without such broad newspaper information as the previous ones.

At the end, KERZHENTSEV was interested in what they were saying about the process, whether there were any new facts of arrests, etc. The general tone of the judgments was restrained and the wording, apparently, was weighed, there was no particular “frankness” in the conversation.

PESHKOVA NA On February 28, a source visited Gorky's house. Nadezhda Alekseevna PESHKOVA went with the children to the dacha, according to RAKITSKY, in order to save the children from all sorts of questions at school from their classmates.

Maria Pavlovna PESHKOVA was in a very dejected state, she cried a lot. She said that she "was experiencing the death of Alexei Maksimovich for the second time."

The source asked if Maria Pavlovna was going to react to these events in any way. Maria Pavlovna replied that she could not come to her senses and that she would definitely call N. I. Ezhov to consult with him what to do.

PESHKOV. Source "Sorrentian". February 28 p. at half past five I was at Nikitinskaya. Timosha was in Gorki. RAKITSKY explained that she was so shocked by the news about Aleksei Maksimovich that they thought it best to send her and her children to Gorki. She herself told Marfa and Darya, Gorky's granddaughters, about what was printed in the newspapers, otherwise they would suddenly find out about it themselves at school. On Nikitinskaya I found LADYZHNIKOV, RAKITSKY, TIKHONOV, and then Ekaterina Pavlovna PESHKOVA. LADYZHNIKOV was mainly concerned with the question of which of the accused was the tsar's bodyguard. RAKITSKY remembered my conversation with him about the doctors who had treated GORKY. He commented with great agitation, just like TIKHONOV, on the news in the newspapers in the sense: who could have expected such atrocity from Dr. LEVIN. Could this be expected from Russian doctors with their social traditions. He expressed his surprise that Dr. VINOGRADOV, mentioned in the case, did not appear in the process.

Then he confirmed once again what he had told me before: in Last year life, relations between Yagoda and Gorky deteriorated. Yagoda was especially offended by the fact that GORKY published in some article "Kirov was not saved." In other words, GORKY said that YAGODA did not save KIROV. In addition, GORKY was irritated by Yagoda's lies about the work on the channel. YAGODA called figures taken from the ceiling, meanwhile, GORKY knew the correct numbers. With GORKY's love for accuracy, Yagoda's Khlestakovism revolted him. The conclusion was this: GORKY changed his mind about Yagoda. GORKY questioned KRYUCHKOV's previous stories about his ability to work, his genius, his foresight, about his nightly walks around Moscow in the manner of Haroun al Rashid. With GORKY close to his leading comrades, he was already a clear danger to Yagoda.

In the house on Nikitinskaya there is an impression of depression and confusion. It's like a second funeral. At the same time, there is a certain fear. Ekaterina Pavlovna, who arrived at the end of my visit, looked very bad, literally aged and haggard. From the words of TIKHONOV, I realized that everyone was afraid that Timosha's name would not be “wagged” during the trial. Somewhat reassured by the fact that VINOGRADOV, who treated Maxim PESHKOV, was not among the accused. This means that they will not talk about Maxim at the trial, such a conclusion is made at Nikitinskaya. According to Lipa CHERTKOVA, TIKHONOV talked about Maxim's treatment methods. Vinogradov ordered to give him a laxative, although this is contraindicated in case of pneumonia, and he himself observed that Maxim was given a laxative. CHERTKOVA tried not to do this, although she is not a doctor, but she understands a little about medicine. RAKITSKY confirmed that YAGODA and KRYUCHKOV were afraid of Maxim, they knew his influence on GORKY, they knew that GORKY believed him. Last time, it seems to me, RAKITSKY spoke less confidently about the relationship between Max and KRYUCHKOV. He recalled how GORKY before last minute believed KRYUCHKOV and gave him life advice "don't drink."

About seven o'clock RAKITSKY, LADIZHNIKOV, Ekaterina Pavlovna, a relative of Timosha Kolya, Ilya VOLNOV (he appeared just before departure) left for Gorki.

ZAITSEV (artist). “From what they write in the newspapers about the right and Trotsky, I don’t believe one iota.

I only believe that we have been suffering for 20 years and, apart from queues for milk, we have achieved nothing with sausage.

KOZLOV (4th year student of the Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University). “I am surprised by the accusation against doctors, especially in connection with the death of GORKY. Who needs him, GORKY as a political figure, well, they are still okay, KUIBYSHEV and MENZHINSKY. And most importantly, I do not believe that the very fact of killing is possible. After all, these doctors were not the only ones who signed the bulletins, besides them there were such people as BURDENKO, a deputy of the Supreme Council, and others too. It is interesting what the doctors will say at the trial and how all this will be proven.”

IGNATOV S. I. (4th year student of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, being developed as a member of a counter-revolutionary group of students). “I don’t believe about RYKOV that he is a spy or a traitor, this person is not like that. STALIN is trying to remove everyone big people and put in their place every little thing that bows before him and cannot compete with him in the struggle for power.

RACHKOVSKY (student of Moscow State University, expelled from the Komsomol, being developed as a member of an anti-Soviet group). “I am sure that if there was LENIN now, then these processes would not exist. Bukharin and Rykov are very smart people, and they were removed from high posts, deprived of their former authority. Only then did they oppose the leadership. They were not traitors to the revolution of 1917, as the newspapers write about it. I am sure that the prestige of the Soviet Union abroad will suffer greatly as a result of this trial, that there will not be a single person in the West who would believe the accusatory materials of the trial.

LEONHARDT V. A. (graduate student of GITIS). “RYKOV could not be a murderer. If RYKOV, the former chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, is called a murderer and a crook, then the Soviet government consists of crooks. I do not believe that KUIBYSHEV, MENZHINSKY and GORKY were killed by enemies of the people.

ZAM. BEGINNING 4 DEPARTMENTS OF THE GUGB NKVD OF THE USSR

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The tragedy of Euripides, according to Timofey Kulyabin, happens in the waiting room at the airport and is built on contrast. The first act is sterile, unhurried and sublime. In the second, the bald heroine of Yulia Peresild goes off the rails, a luggage conveyor delivers a tormented corpse, blood is smeared everywhere, and evidence of the non-existence of God flashes on plasma screens - quotes from great scientists of all eras.

Memorial obsession

The most cruel, ascetic and stern performance of Kama Ginkas has been played in a small white room for 25 years. main character- Katerina Ivanovna, a supporting character from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Spectators here automatically turn into guests at the commemoration of the just buried husband of Katerina Ivanovna, everyone is sitting at a large table and willy-nilly condole. Everything would be fine, but the mind of the heroine Oksana Mysina was clouded, and in front of the audience there is a naturalistic insanity with a furious finale.

Dialogue with the rapist

A real-life story brought from the USA to the Praktika Theater by director and actor Kazimir Liske. The maniac raped and killed a beautiful young girl. They put him in. After some time, the father of the victim began to write letters to the perpetrator. An extremely painful correspondence ensued for several years; However, with a soul-saving outcome. Actors Dmitry Brusnikin and Anton Kuznetsov voiced the correspondence from the last letter to the first, which is why the horror coefficient at some point goes over a critical mark.

Cynical canvas by Konstantin Bogomolov about violence against children

A gloomy quiet performance that turned into a terrible rhyme for a flash mob #I'm not afraid to say. From Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot" Konstantin Bogomolov took mainly the lines of Myshkin, Rogozhin, Aglaya and Nastasya Filippovna, coveted by all. The last one, in the director's interpretation, turns out to be a little girl, which is why the passion of the male part of the list actors turns into criminal lust. Myshkin (who is in the program - Tmyshkin) Bogomolov played himself.

Three hours of aestheticized horror of unfreedom

The epochal experiment of the director and playwright Andrei Stadnikov with the artists of the Dmitry Brusnikin Workshop was conceived as a performance about the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp. In the resulting three-hour performance there is not a word about the Stalinist camps, but there are several Soviet plays, the poetry of Paul Celan and a set of collages from screenplays of European and American films (from Bitter Moon to Bronson) about lack of freedom and violence. There is no plot at all, but there is a powerful wave of horror raised by a team of actors, which, in a panic finale, douses all those present, regardless of the degree of involvement in the material. The performance was played at the Kristall factory before reconstruction, then at a construction site on Sretensky Boulevard. The next location, according to the will of the authors, should again be a place that will soon disappear.

Sarah Kane's dying play performed by a crowd of distraught women

Playwright Sarah Kane decided to die at exactly 4:48. She finished writing the play, called it "4.48 psychosis" and hanged herself. This was in 1998, however theater directors still have no idea how to deal with this text by an outstanding English author. People who are not usually involved in staging plays worked on the show "Electrotheatre": the association of multimedia artists AES + F, which regularly represents Russia at Venice Biennale, and film director Alexander Zeldovich. The text is performed by almost the entire female part of the troupe against the backdrop of pulsating vagina mushrooms and bleeding flying breasts.

The fact that the Roman emperor Caligula elevated his horse to senatorial dignity formally made it perhaps the highest-ranking and privileged animal in history, although Gavrila Derzhavin protested, arguing that the horse "could not shine, shining in gold." In fact, it was not a very enviable fate; during the reign of Caligula, fame and dignity were sufficient grounds for the death penalty. We do not know further biography this particular horse, but most of the animals we come in contact with don't really have to count on our mercy, even if they don't get a title. The easiest share they can hope for is to be fattened and eaten.
Cats, however, don't get off easy because they are rarely eaten. But on the other hand, we got the hang of arranging such a life for them so as not to seem like the Roman Senate - in the Middle Ages and later, cat holocausts were among the favorite pastimes of the population of Europe: tailed accomplices of the devil were caught, stuffed with huge bags and burned with carnival glee. Today, there are no such public festivities, but some subcultures have not yet lost the habit of drowning kittens.
All this, of course, are grimaces and remnants of the accursed past. Today, it would seem that cats have got a lucky ticket, they are among the most beloved pets, ahead of dogs in some places. Evidence of their popularity can be found in many European languages, including Russian, in which the most common affectionate epithets and interjections are associated with cats - however, similar fame did little to help the Russian hare.
Someone had to take a logical step and try to extract a direct, that is, convertible benefit from cats, not limited to cute photos of kittens that escaped the ice hole. This step was taken by Yuri Kuklachev with his “cat theater”, that is, a cat circus. Cats have long been known as wayward and untrainable animals - all the more remarkable is the merit of the pioneer who managed to get them to overcome this prejudice.
Keyword here, of course, "force". In nature, tigers do not jump through burning hoops, bears do not ride bicycles, and cats do not walk on their front legs. How can they be attracted to what they clearly do not want? The obvious way is through cruelty. How can one not recall the old anecdote about the mummy, which archaeologists could not identify until the KGB experts arrived and she herself confessed to everything?
Or is it still kindness? Every owner of a cat knows that she is capable of much. The trouble is that it is categorically impossible to force her to regularly repeat funny tricks, especially with a large gathering of people. Here we need the caress of a truly industrial force.
When we were children, they tried to convince us of many things, including that Grandpa Durov's Soviet circus was the most humane in the world. Since then, many illusions have dissipated, including this one. But Yuri Kuklachev insists that he is an exception to the general rule, and that his animals can't praise him enough. He has won a number of international awards, including, as his theater's generally deserted and deserted site mentions, a feline performance protesting the use of natural fur.
Unpleasant rumors, however, leaked out, you can’t put a cover on the Internet. Someone mentioned the terrible stench and desperate hungry meowing during transportation, others - about hot tiles, on which animals were shaken off, teaching them to jump on the benefactor's shoulders. Drowning kittens thrown into the trash were mentioned. Here, of course, it would make sense to provide links, but here's the detail that gets in the way. Last year, the owners of a number of sites with similar observations received a notification signed by a person who loudly introduced himself as the “press officer” of the cat theater.

on your resource x posted information of a deliberately false, slanderous nature, insulting honor and dignity People's Artist Russian Yuri Kuklachev, as well as discrediting the reputation public institution culture of the city of Moscow Theater of cats Kuklachev... If the specified materials are not removed from the site x within seven calendar days from the date of receipt of this letter, we will interpret this as the readiness of the owner of the resource to be responsible for publications in court ...

This letter discouraged excessive publicity from many, but not from mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky, a fairly well-known person on the Russian Internet, the administrator of the site lj.rossija.org, conceived as an uncensored alternative to livejournal.com. He collected many of the above observations on his blog. He ultimately had to answer to the court. The court rejected the accusations of defamation, but sentenced Verbitsky to a fine for the vocabulary he resorted to when characterizing the methods of training and the personality of the trainer.
Install real facts difficult, since potential informants are clearly intimidated by Verbitsky's example. I managed to get in touch with veterinarian Nikolai Loginov, who once had a clinic at the Kuklachev Theater, and he described some of the cruel methods, including a noose that an animal gets into without making the required jump. He also said that Kuklachev neglected castration, and simply threw out the kittens. Loginov, of course, can be suspected of addiction, since the trainer abruptly broke off relations with him, but Kuklachev himself, on the already mentioned site, cites as proof of his humanity the fact that he gives his cats at least one lamb, because otherwise they are supposedly threatened with cancer. This is enough for me personally to understand the degree of awareness of the great friend of cats about their physiology.
Immediately, however, he posted, obviously in the order of boasting, a note from AiF that a certain cat Boris "put 25 actresses out of action." If someone has the imagination to imagine Yuri Kuklachev worrying about the fate of a litter of 25 cats (not to mention retired cats), I am forced to admit to the poverty of my own and at least mentally resort to the vocabulary incriminated to Verbitsky.
As far as I understand, the fine that he was awarded is currently being disputed, and in general, Verbitsky is not upset by the court's decision. But I am struck by the fact that the fate of the animals themselves remained outside the attention of justice, as well as the accusations of cruelty implicitly brought against Kuklachev. In the end, the cats themselves do not have any legal authority and cannot initiate cases.
However, in Russia they do not have rights either. The draft law on the protection of animals was vetoed by the then President Putin, noting that this area is already sufficiently regulated, in particular, by the law “On the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population”. He doesn't seem to see much difference between Coney's own Labrador and the flea that hunts him.
It may be objected that in Russia even the existing laws on the protection of people are observed without excessive care, and the bodies called upon to deal with this protection practice mainly extortion, torture and population control by shooting at supermarkets and driving in the opposite lane. I won't go into the legal implications of this argument, but it doesn't stand up to moral scrutiny. We cannot throw all our strength into the fight against murders, and leave robberies and rapes alone until better times. Morality is not divided into halves.
The animal rights situation sets Russia apart from most of today's developed societies, although I understand that this is not the only thing that sets it apart. Animal ethics courses are taught in most US law schools. But I will not delve into this ethics for now, but I want to limit myself to the most minimal platform. Our attitude towards animals characterizes, first of all, ourselves, this is what “Mumu”, “Kholstomer” and “Kashtanka” teach us. Immanuel Kant, who did not yet recognize animals as objects of ethics, nevertheless believed, following John Locke, that a cruel attitude towards them dehumanizes the person himself. And certainly it is impossible to take a lie beyond the limits of morality.
lie, in this case, is the assertion that there is a "humane" circus involving animals. The guesses of those who treat animals with love, and not with self-interest, are correct: they can be taught a lot, but not what they are frankly afraid of and do not like, their fear is overcome only by an even stronger fear of punishment from the "tamer". Today, the world's leading circus troupes, including the famous Canadian Cirque du Soleil, are refusing to use animals in their programs, and boycotts are being organized against those that hesitate. Judging by everything that common sense and conscience dictate, the place of Kuklachev's "cat theater" is among the latter.

Most recently the editorial wuzzup the whole team went for new emotions and sensations to a popular Moscow institution - Horror Theater "PSYCHOSIS".

We will not talk about what awaited us there. You never know, suddenly, you want to go there with your friends.

Briefly about what kind of place this is ...

"Theatre of Horror" "Psychosis" is a completely new and unique art project on the territory of Russia, created with only one purpose, to show you the limit of human fear.” T as it says on their website. And, we tell you, they do not lie a bit.

Interesting scenery, professional acting and many different "chips" are so immersive in the created atmosphere that at some point you think - "Is this really a game?". And then another terrible thought creeps into my head - “But, in fact, all horror films begin like this - with a ridiculous game. And at the beginning of the mess, everyone is so funny ... ".

In general, we did not manage to relax for a second, and when it was over, we thought, - "Crap! Is it already over? We want more! I'll have to do it again sometime!"

So here, e If you haven't planned anything for the weekend yet, take a look at this option. And by the way, do not forget to immediately select the level of fear. There are three of them (we recommend the third level for strong guys):

• First Level (normal);
• Second Level (nightmare);
• Third Level (hell).

Official website of PSYCHOSIS: www.psychoz.ru

And finally, a small promo video, watch ...