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The cipher telegram of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Central Committee of the RCP (b) to the provincial executive committees and the provincial committees of the RCP (b) on the support of the "loyal clergy." March 30, 1922

No. 23-31 ³⁰

March 30, 1922

Circularly.

Top secret. IN CODE.

FOR SPONGERS COPY FOR GUBISPOLKOMS

30 / ІII-22 y. ¹ *

Newspapers often cite the calls of the clergy for help to the starving, seeing in them the loyal fulfillment of the decree on the confiscation of Church valuables. It is necessary to support the loyal clergy, which precisely and directly calls on believers to fulfill the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on the confiscation of valuables.

CHAIRMAN VTSIK KALININ

SECRETARY OF THE RKP CC MOLOTOV

-                      L. 55. Typewritten copy of that time, certified by the deputy head of the cipher bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) S.F. Chechulin. Below is a handwritten note about the mailing: "from No. 1957 / sh to No. 2026 / sh inclusive]". Handwritten date.

-                      GARF, f. 1235, op. 140, d.59, l. 20. Typewritten copy made on May 18, 1922 and certified by the secretary of A. G. Beloborodov V. Litsis. By the hand of the latter, the same litter about the mailing with the date "30 / III.22" There is no formula "SHIFROM" .

-                      Published as the text of a single cipher telegram with number 23-32 with the date of March 30, 1922: Badelin V.I. Gold of the Church ... p. 161.

Notes and Comments:

¹ * in the copy it is wrongly written 30 / IV.

³⁰ V GARF, f. 1235, op. 140, d.59, l. 29-rev. there is a document without a date sent by the deputy head of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) SF Chechulin to the Central Committee of the RCP, a copy of Comrade Kamenev ", indicating that these secret circulars" were sent [s] in one cipher message ". Here is a complete list of all seventy outgoing numbers (from No. 1957 / sh to No. 2026 / sh) with the address of each (from Tver to Petrograd).