Re: The Soviet Union
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2023 5:51 pm
On the unjustified reinstatement of the repressed at work
July 4, 19:23
A very interesting and remarkable document ( https://istmat.org/node/68079 GASO. F. R-3286. Op. 1. D. 3. L. 118) signed by the USSR Prosecutor Vyshinsky dated October 19, 1938.
In it, Vyshinsky, already at the end of the Yezhovshchina (in a month, Yezhov would be removed from the post of head of the NKVD of the USSR, and later arrested and shot), reports that even then a problem arose with the reinstatement of persons subjected to unreasonable repressions. The authorities were faced with the fact that in addition to those who suffered without guilt and were legally restored, there were also those who applied for restoration using the fact that the materials of their criminal cases could not be declassified and were not considered in the courts where the cases were considered about reinstatement.
Therefore, after decisions on reinstatement, the USSR Prosecutor's Office reserved the right to recheck court decisions on the facts of reinstatement of illegally dismissed workers.
In fact, this is one of the first documents where the issue of unjustified rehabilitation is raised. On the one hand, one can see that already at the end of the Yezhovshchina, a review of the cases of the illegally repressed began, which continued much more actively under Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, which resulted in an amnesty of 1940. On the other hand, it also shows that the judiciary and the prosecutor's office did not act in concert, as is commonly believed.
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Motivation from Ilyich
colonelcassad
July 3, 16:00
How to shove the military with a kind word.
When in June 1918 the 4th Red Army was formed near the city of Volsk, it happened in wild, even by the standards of the Civil War, chaos.
The army was formed from partisan and semi-partisan village detachments, spontaneous and organized Red Guard detachments of workers, soldiers and internationalists, as well as from new regular units of the Red Army, recruited by mobilization.
All the commanders were fiercely at enmity with each other and all together were at enmity with the civil authorities, who were impatient to push this whole mob to the front.
Representatives of the People's Commissariat of War came to the army with formidable decrees and mandates, immediately mired in local squabbles and brought even more disorganization. No one carried out the orders from Moscow, referring to the discrepancy between their content and local reality. They tried to unite on the basis of party cells and immediately turned their meetings into fights and brawls - they could not agree on a single line.
After each fight, they made the same decision: "Let's ask Lenin again!"
Ilyich, this booth, of course, pissed him off. He asked everyone seconded to the 4th Army either clearly, no matter what, to fulfill the order, or simply to force all these pi ... members of the Revolutionary Military Council, commissars and commanders to obey the unified command of the army and act according to the situation.
Finally, after another srach at the army headquarters, when for the hundredth time they decided to seek advice "to Lenin", they received the following answer from him: "You do
as your consciousness tells you. If the decree goes badly, but your actions are good ", no one will scold you for this. If you do not fulfill the order or decree, and your actions come out badly, then you will need to be shot all."
The 4th Army somehow immediately gathered, went and broke Komucha near Khvalynsk.
Ilyich's answer was warmly recalled by Antonov-Saratovsky in the journal Proletarian Revolution, No. 3, 1924, p. 186.
(c) Grigory Tsidenkov
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July 4, 19:23
A very interesting and remarkable document ( https://istmat.org/node/68079 GASO. F. R-3286. Op. 1. D. 3. L. 118) signed by the USSR Prosecutor Vyshinsky dated October 19, 1938.
In it, Vyshinsky, already at the end of the Yezhovshchina (in a month, Yezhov would be removed from the post of head of the NKVD of the USSR, and later arrested and shot), reports that even then a problem arose with the reinstatement of persons subjected to unreasonable repressions. The authorities were faced with the fact that in addition to those who suffered without guilt and were legally restored, there were also those who applied for restoration using the fact that the materials of their criminal cases could not be declassified and were not considered in the courts where the cases were considered about reinstatement.
Therefore, after decisions on reinstatement, the USSR Prosecutor's Office reserved the right to recheck court decisions on the facts of reinstatement of illegally dismissed workers.
In fact, this is one of the first documents where the issue of unjustified rehabilitation is raised. On the one hand, one can see that already at the end of the Yezhovshchina, a review of the cases of the illegally repressed began, which continued much more actively under Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, which resulted in an amnesty of 1940. On the other hand, it also shows that the judiciary and the prosecutor's office did not act in concert, as is commonly believed.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8468805.html
Motivation from Ilyich
colonelcassad
July 3, 16:00
How to shove the military with a kind word.
When in June 1918 the 4th Red Army was formed near the city of Volsk, it happened in wild, even by the standards of the Civil War, chaos.
The army was formed from partisan and semi-partisan village detachments, spontaneous and organized Red Guard detachments of workers, soldiers and internationalists, as well as from new regular units of the Red Army, recruited by mobilization.
All the commanders were fiercely at enmity with each other and all together were at enmity with the civil authorities, who were impatient to push this whole mob to the front.
Representatives of the People's Commissariat of War came to the army with formidable decrees and mandates, immediately mired in local squabbles and brought even more disorganization. No one carried out the orders from Moscow, referring to the discrepancy between their content and local reality. They tried to unite on the basis of party cells and immediately turned their meetings into fights and brawls - they could not agree on a single line.
After each fight, they made the same decision: "Let's ask Lenin again!"
Ilyich, this booth, of course, pissed him off. He asked everyone seconded to the 4th Army either clearly, no matter what, to fulfill the order, or simply to force all these pi ... members of the Revolutionary Military Council, commissars and commanders to obey the unified command of the army and act according to the situation.
Finally, after another srach at the army headquarters, when for the hundredth time they decided to seek advice "to Lenin", they received the following answer from him: "You do
as your consciousness tells you. If the decree goes badly, but your actions are good ", no one will scold you for this. If you do not fulfill the order or decree, and your actions come out badly, then you will need to be shot all."
The 4th Army somehow immediately gathered, went and broke Komucha near Khvalynsk.
Ilyich's answer was warmly recalled by Antonov-Saratovsky in the journal Proletarian Revolution, No. 3, 1924, p. 186.
(c) Grigory Tsidenkov
https://vk.com/id6186050 - zinc
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8465696.html
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