Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God, and Thy fate is a great abyss!
Psalm 35: 7
History and documents. So, last time we finished with 1933 ("Pravda" newspaper of 1933 about fascism and fascists ") and today we will see what she wrote in 1934. And we will start with international events, and then move on to Soviet news.
As always, a very large place in the Soviet press was occupied by the fate of the defendants in the case of the arson of the Reichstag, and the newspaper Pravda wrote about them constantly. Van der Lubbe was the worst. He was executed! "Don't set fire to the Reichstag!"
It just so happened that this material was preceded by materials from 1937, including those that talked about leaky bags, scattered grain and other shortcomings in agriculture. But … it all began not in this significant year, but much, much earlier. And if in the repressive 37th they could not end them, then what can we say about the 34th? And here, for example, what problems in the agriculture of the USSR in 1934 the newspaper "Pravda" reported.
The Congress was attended by 1,966 delegates, including 1,227 with a casting vote and 739 with an advisory vote, who represented 1,872,488 party members and another 935,298 candidates.
"Employees of central institutions, not counting members of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission, had 166 mandates, or 23%, members of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission - 175 mandates, or 24%, local party organizations had 395 mandates, or 53%."
Among the delegates, 60% were workers and 8% were peasants; delegates-party workers were 40%, Soviet administrative bodies - 10, 2%, agricultural workers - 10%, military - 7, 3% and "transport workers" - 6%. However, the congress is much more interesting with other figures. Of all these selected, "pure" and "devoted", honored and authoritative, over time, many were … shot. So, out of 139 members and candidates for members of the Central Committee of the party elected at the 17th Party Congress, 70% were arrested and shot in 1937-1938. as "enemies of the people." Of the 1966 delegates to the same congress with a decisive and deliberative vote, more than half - 1108 people - were convicted of counterrevolutionary speeches. That is, almost every one of those present turned out to be an enemy in the end! Or did they “deteriorate” so much in the remaining three years?..
