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A post-telegram from L. D. Trotsky to the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) with proposals for agitation for the seizure of church property, adopted by the Politburo. May 6, 1922
No. 23-43
Top secret
APPENDIX TO THE PROTOCOL OF THE POLITBURO No. 6 of 1 IV22, item 19 POST-TELEGRAM No. 44 / r.
Central Committee of the RCP.
The Commission for the Confiscation of Valuables considers it necessary to draw the attention of the Central Committee to the fact that agitation in connection with values, etc., in the Soviet and Party press has again become extremely weakened and deprived of the necessary leadership. It is necessary to instruct Rosta, in the person of its quite trusted and competent employee, to give a daily summary of the most important and successful articles and notes of the Moscow press on the issue of values and the church for the provincial press, while instructing the latter to devote a significant part of its columns to this extremely important moment question.
The commission asks the Central Committee to indicate which of Rosta's workers will be given this instruction in order to establish direct and correct relations with him.
L. TROTSKY
May 6, 1922
- L. 66. Certified typewritten copy made on April 25, 1958
- APRF, f. 3, op. 1, d.275, l. 28. Draft minutes of the Politburo meeting. Typewritten original, signature - facsimile. In the second line of text "etc." inserted by hand. The second stamp, "urgently, " is written under the "Top Secret" stamp . Instead of the typewritten line "ANNEX TO THE PROTOCOL OF THE POLITBURO No. 6 of
11.V.22, p. 19" written in pencil "Appendix] p / b No. 6, p. 19". Below is a stamp about the document's belonging to the office work of the Politburo meeting, minutes No. 6, item 19 of May 11, 1922 (No. 23-46).