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From the transcript of the December plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1936.

From the speech of Comrade Sarkisov. December 4, 1936

Questions of History, 1995, No. 1 Pages. 8

Sarkisov. ...Here I completely failed to justify the trust that was placed in me by the Central Committee. I thought, at least, that if the Central Committee of the Party, if Comrade Stalin trusts me, a former oppositionist, in such a large area, I thought that I would be able not to misfire. But on one face I misfired.

Stalin. To Shaev?

Sarkisov.Yes, to Shaev...