Karpov Purged

Committee for Party Control, On the Fulfillment of CPSU CC Instructions. Report for the period 1 March 1956 to 1 March 1957. April 16, 1957

 

Original Source: Izvestiia TsK KPSS, 11/1989, pp. 52-3.

The Committee for party control was instructed by the CPSU Central Committee to examine 58 statements on the non-observance of party and state discipline by individual leading workers, on the breaking of socialist legality and also statements on their rehabilitation in the party. In all for the period under review the examination of 40 statements was completed, the results were examined by the Committee for Party Control and corresponding decisions were taken, about which reports were sent to the CPSU CC …

On the instructions of the Secretariat of the CPSU CC the Committee for party control examined the statement of the secretary of the party organization of the Directorate of the KGB for Pskov region, comrade Ivanov, on the breaking of socialist legality by the former head of the Pskov district department of the NKVD comrade G. G. Karpov, currently working as chairman of the Council for the affairs of the Russian orthodox church attached to the USSR Council of Ministers.

An investigation established that comrade Karpov, working from 1937 to 1938 in the Leningrad directorate and the Pskov district department of the NKVD, flagrantly violated socialist legality, conducted mass arrests of completely innocent citizens, deployed perverted methods of conducting investigations and also falsified records of the interrogations of those arrested. For these unlawful actions a large group of investigation workers of the Pskov district department of the NKVD were sentenced back in 1941, but comrade Karpov at that time had been summoned to work in Moscow in the central apparatus of the NKVD. In connection with this the military board of the NKVD forces of the Leningrad military district took the decision to institute criminal proceedings in relation to G. G. Karpov, but this decision was relegated to the archive by the Ministry of state security.

For the violations of socialist legality committed from 1937 to 1938, comrade Karpov has earned expulsion from the CPSU but, given the time since the crimes were committed and the positive work in the succeeding years, the Committee for party control confined itself in relation to comrade G. G. Karpov to issuing him with a strict rebuke to be entered in his record card. …

Source: Felix Corley, ed., Religion in the Soviet Union: an Archival Reader (New York: New York University Press, 1996), Doc. 127.

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