JEROME LIVSHITZ, Tuapse, U.S.S.R., 1930, Livshitz shot 1936
Trials in Russia
More than twenty plotters -- including one of those Mdivanis -- have been shot at Tiflis in Soviet Georgia, Stalin's home section of Russia. They were charged with conspiracy against Moscow. So the Trotsky-Stalin feud between red radicals and pinky moderates continues. Close to a hundred victims have been bumped off legally in the past year.
Last August sixteen were executed, including the famous Old Bolshevists Zinoviev and Kamenev, after spectacular trials. In January thirteen more were shot for treason, Piatokov and Livschitz among them, while Radek was jailed. They were accused of plotting with Germany and Japan, with the famous Trotsky (now in Mexican exile) as their arch-fiend. Forty-four saboteurs were shot in the Far East at Svobodny early in May. Late in May came the lethal Tiflis doings. There will be more.
Meanwhile Tukachevsky, second-in-command of the Redarmy, has been demoted; and Yagoda, former head of the G.P.U. secret police, is in hot water as the plots thicken. Stalin is evidently strengthening his new personal ascendancy, backing "reactionary" policies of moderation. There is plenty of trouble in store for those who oppose him, whether radical Trotskyites, revengeful czarists, or rugged Russian individualists.
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