Politburo And The Church, Kremlin Archives

N. Petrovsky, S.G. Petrov

JV Stalin's note to members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) on voting by poll to approve the death sentence in the case of the Moscow clergy and believers [May 8, 1922]

No. 24-7

HURRY. SECRET.

TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE POLITBURO

A Moscow court sentenced 11 people to death, most of them are priests: (8 priests, 1 wood splitter, agitator, butcher shop). Kamenev proposes to limit ourselves to the execution of two priests.

I ask you to vote "for" or "against" Comrade Kamenev's proposal. I personally vote against the cancellation of the court decision.

SECRETARY OF THE CC. Stalin

- L. 9. Typewritten copy of that time, made for the office work of the Central Committee of the RCP (b). A stamp confirming that the document belongs to the proceedings of the Politburo meeting, minutes No. 6, item 18 of May 11, 1922 (No. 24-12). A handwritten litter about the same with the date "6 / V-22". Stamp of the Secret Archive of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) with an inventory number. Date of the document by the date of the survey (No. 24-12).

- L. 8. Typewritten copy of the later time from the copy. Made simultaneously with L. 7 (No. 24-12). Above, there is a typewritten note on the document's belonging to the proceedings of the Politburo meeting, minutes No. 6, item 18 with the date “6.V. 22 g. " (No. 24-12). Removed the formula "t." (comrade) before Kamenev's surname in the last sentence.