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Στις 16/12/25 21:14, ο/η Charles via groups.io έγραψε:
Gorbachev's Commission Lied in Order to Rehabilitate Bukharin
In 1988, during Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika campaign to
overthrow Soviet socialism, a Politburo commission re-examined 270
files from the arrest and 1938 trial of Nikolai Bukharin. At trial he
insisted that he was indeed guilty of some of the crimes while denying
other charges.
Soviet news reports proclaimed that the review cleared Bukharin – he
was innocent of all the crimes. However, the Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and
Putin governments never published the decree of rehabilitation, let
alone the materials that the Politburo commission examined.
Independent researchers have discovered the 1988 decree. It provides
no evidence that Bukharin was falsely convicted in 1938. Worse, the
decree lied about a statement by another accused, Mikhail Frinovsky.
He stated that NKVD chief Yagoda talked to certain accused persons
before they were to confront another accused person in a recorded
meeting. Yagoda wanted the accused person not to disclose that Yagoda
himself was a co-conspirator against the regime. But the commission,
without quoting Frinovsky directly, said he stated that Yagoda ordered
staff to get false confessions from the accused.
Whether Frinovsky's statement was true or false is not the issue here.
The Gorbachev commission was unable to find any reason to doubt
Bukharin's confession to a number of crimes, but it knew it had to
conclude that he was innocent. To that end, the commission twisted
Frinovsky's words.
Historians have used the Gorbachev material for decades to assert that
Bukharin was innocent. They were wrong. If they are still active in
the field of Soviet studies, they should correct their previous
judgment and acknowledge that we have no grounds to set aside
Bukharin's confession. So should Trotskyites and anti-communists in
general. Don't count on it.
–The above post summarizes research by Grover Furr and Vladimir L.
Bobrov, "Bukharin’s Fraudulent Rehabilitation: A Study of the
Unpublished Soviet Supreme Court Decree," /Cultural Logic: Marxist
Theory and Practice/, at
https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/clogic/article/view/201655
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