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N. Petrovsky, S.G. Petrov

Resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) on the course of the campaign to confiscate church valuables. From the minutes of the meeting of the Politburo No. 5, paragraph

15 of May 4, 1922

No. 23-42

STRICTLY SECRET

15. - About the campaign to confiscate church valuables .

(Comrade Trotsky).

Having heard the news on the progress of the campaign to confiscate valuables, the Politburo notes the extreme slowness and sluggishness of its implementation and puts it on the surface of all its participants.

SECRETARY OF THE CC

-                      L. 62. Typewritten copy of a later extract on the letterhead of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) - RCP (b) of the 1930s.

-                      APRF, f. 3, op. 1, d.274, l. 14. Draft minutes of the Politburo meeting. Handwritten script on a sheet of lined paper. At the bottom left is a mailing record: “Members of the Commission? t. Trotsky, Sapronov, Yakovlev, Unshlikht, Beloborodov, Kalinin. " For the list of those present, see No. 23-40.