Politburo And The Church, Kremlin Archives

N. Petrovsky, S.G. Petrov

Cipher telegram from the secretary of the Central Bank of the Communist Party of Belarus V. A. Bogutsky to the Central Committee of the RCP (b) to J. V. Stalin on the postponement of the trial of Catholic Polish priests in Belarus. May 15, 1922

No. 24-22 * ¹²

May 15, 1922

Received for decryption 16 / Ѵ 1922 at 8 o'clock.

HIGHLY SECRET PERFORMANCE SUBMIT TO SECRET ARCHIVE

From Minsk

MOSCOW Central Committee of the RCP Comrade STALIN.

15 / V-22 years old. We postpone the process for a week. Hurry to leave Leszczynski, preferably

also Cherlyunchavich ¹ * Tolmarka ²² . No. 17 / III

SECRETARY TSEBE CPB BOGUTSKY

- L. 35. Typewritten original on the form of the cipher telegram of the Central Committee of the RCP (b). Below is a handwritten footnote made by the assistant secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) A. M. Nazaretyan to explain the correction of the surname in the text of the document: “Correction, see w [ifro] / t [telegram] No. 18 w from

Bogutskago vkh [odody] No. 204 sh ... A. Shazaretyan]

” (see comment 22 to d. 24). The formula for secrecy and the transfer to the archive with a stamp.

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The case contains a document on the form of a cipher telegram of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), sent on May 16, 1922 from Minsk from the secretary of the Central Bank of the CPB V. A. Bogutsky to the address: "MOSCOW Central Committee of the RCP ZAM-ZAVSHIFRBYURO CHECHULIN" with the text: "On No. 2686 / We inform Cherlyunchavich Polbureau knows him. No. 18 / sh ". Below, by the hand of AS Balagurovskaya litter: “Information: No. 2686 / sh from 16 / Ѵ with a request to repeat the cipher telegram No. 17 / sh due to its distortion. A. B [Alagurovskaya] ". At the top of the bar with stamps: 1) "VERY SECRET"; 2) "ON PERFORMANCE, DELIVER TO THE SECRET ARCHIVE". (L. 37).

The file contains a report sent on May 16, 1922 to the secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) I.V. Stalin, signed by the responsible officer of the Code Department of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) Dolgov, with the text: “At 13:00 on May 16, you ordered not to transmit the note by direct wire Minsk comrade KNORIN, but in view of the fact that at this time the messenger of the Minsk Telegraph was already looking for the deputy. Comrade Knorin, and who appeared at the telegraph in person at 14:45. I accepted your note and gave an answer. " (L. 36).

¹ * Corrected by hand above the line by A. M. Nazaretyan from the original printed to Cheljesorrelu.

²² Having received an encrypted telegram from Minsk in Moscow at 8 am on May 16, 1922, two hours later the responsible officer of the Cipher Department of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) A.S. literally". Thus, the demands to attend the trial of persons desirable for Minsk could not be fulfilled by the addressee of the telegram, I. V. Stalin. A telegram was urgently sent to the Belarusian capital "with a request to repeat the cipher telegram No. 17 / Ш due to its distortion." At 11:30 pm on May 16, 1922, in response to a Moscow request, a new encrypted telegram came from Minsk addressed to the deputy head of the Cipher Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) S.F. note to No. 24-22).

After 30 minutes, at 24 hours, the responsible officer of the Code Department of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), who received it, MP Sharikov, deciphered the "Chelzhesorrela Tolmark" previously designated by his colleague AS Balagurovskaya as "Chljunchavich knows him Polbyuro." It is possible that this time the surname was not completely deciphered. As it was possible to establish, in Moscow in the first half of the 1920s. in the top leadership of the country two people worked with the surname not "Cherlyunchavich", but "Cherlyunchakevich". In particular, N.A. Cherlyunchakevich worked in the People's Commissariat of Justice: a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat, head of the department of judicial organization and judicial supervision (organizational and instructor), Deputy People's Commissar of

Justice (see: GARF, f. 1235, op. 95, d. 95, l. 262; Izvestiya VTSIK. 1922. March 5 (No. 52) and May 10 (No. 102)). M.S.Cherlyunchakevich, head of the Presidium secretariat, worked in the Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee (see: Links. M., 1992. Issue. 2.P. 440, 649). In addition, in 1923-1924. Moscow received documents from Kharkov with the signature "Cherlyunchakevich": in the Ukrainian capital he temporarily corrected the post of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR (see: GARF, f. 5263, op. 1, d. 55, l. 345). It is not excluded that it was precisely one of these Cherlyunchakevichs that Minsk requested for the prepared trial of Polish Catholic priests.

JV Stalin's cipher telegram to the secretary of the CPB Central Committee VG Knorin with a proposal to postpone the trial of Catholic Polish priests in Belarus. May 15-16, 1922

No. 24-23 ¹²

[15-16 May 1922]

IN CODE.

Secret .

MINSK CB KP OF BELARUS FOR KNORIN or his deputy

Polbureau proposes to postpone the process for a week in order to prepare the materials and ensure success. Notify me immediately. Your conclusion. LESCHINSKY will leave point Nr 2684 / sh

SECRETARY of the Central Committee of the RCP. Stalin

- L. 34. 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. Dated to # 24-21 and # 24-22. Freehand secrecy formula.

JV Stalin's note to the Polish Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) S. Geltman on the postponement of the trial of Catholic Polish priests in Belarus [May 16, 1922]

No. 24-24 ¹²

[May 16, 1922]

Polbureau

Geltman [y]

The process has been postponed. Speed up the immediate departure of Leshchinsky and Pestkovsky.

- L. 38. Handwritten original on the letterhead of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), autograph of J. V. Stalin. Below the text is a pencil note: “ Reported by phone [efon y] . No. 5-0729 - 11:40 pm to Comrade Geltman "(" 11:00 "is corrected from the original " 12:00 "). Below is ink droppings: “vol. Geltman said that they will leave in two days with the materials they collect here. " Dated to No. 24-22.

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