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Dzerzhinsky approved and did his best to carry out the directive of Grigory Zinoviev, then chairman of the Comintern: "If out of 100,000,000 population, 10,000,000 do not want to obey the Soviets, they have to be destroyed physically." Nobody will ever know how many hundreds of thousands were killed by Dzerzhinsky's CHEKA...
...youth created futility out of internal dissension. Among the Old Bolsheviks themselves unity has been maintained by terror. Of the Politburo as it existed in 1925 when Molotov was raised to it, three men-Stalin, Voroshilov and Molotov-are left. Tomsky committed suicide; Kalinin and Dzerzhinsky died; Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Rykov, Rudzutak, Petrovsky, Uglanov and Kamenev were all efficiently purged. In 1930 when he became Premier he told the secret of his survival in his inaugural speech...
Labor Party leaders tore their hair. Herbert Morrison, Labor Party policy maker, denied that his Party would ever use violence. Cried Labor Party newspapers: "Another Zinoviev letter...
...Zinoviev letter, purportedly written to British Communists by the Chairman of the Third International, Grigory Zinoviev (purged and shot in 1936), urged them to take over the Government by force. Laborites claimed that the letter was a Tory forgery. But it helped to lose them the general election...
...rate, Lenin's proposal could scarcely be carried out against Stalin's strong organization. During this and the subsequent crucial period the chief members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the Party's ruling body, were Stalin, Trotsky, Grigori Zinoviev, Leo Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky-seven little bottles hanging on the wall. In 1928 Trotsky was exiled from the U.S.S.R., in 1936 Zinoviev and Kamenev were tried for treason, found guilty, shot. Tomsky attended the trial, committed suicide. In 1938 Rykov and Bukharin went before the firing squad...