Union of Soviet Composers, Resolution condemning Anti-Soviet Activities. January 1, 1937

Original Source: Sovetskaia muzyka, January 1937.

The composers of Moscow, musical activists and members of the Union of Soviet Composers, assembled at a session on the occasion of the trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyite Center, express their profound indignation at the criminal activity of the Trotskyites, the vilest column of the world Fascist counter-revolution. Inveterate sworn enemies of socialism, dastardly enemies of the working class and its great Party of Lenin and Stalin, attempted to take away from us the achievements of the proletarian revolution, restore capitalism, and impose upon the country the Fascist yoke.

The enemies miscalculated again. In the land of victorious socialism, they failed to find support for their heinous designs, and, having sunk to the lowest level of degradation, became a direct agency of German and Japanese Fascism.

The murder of the best sons of the working class, espionage and diversion, sabotage of the defensive power of the Soviet Union, auctioning off piecemeal the great Soviet fatherland-there is no infamy of which these monstrous Trotskyite outcasts are not capable of perpetrating. There is no room on earth for this vile band!

Soviet composers join their voices to the unanimous demand of the Soviet people-to shoot down every one of these traitors who attempted to destroy our happy life. We are convinced that Soviet justice will expose all the criminal nests of the Trotskyites and their accomplices from the Bukharinite camp, and will cleanse our Fatherland of this scum of Fascism.

Resolution

United by the great idea of socialism, its ranks closed around the Communist Party and our beloved leader and friend, Comrade Stalin, the Soviet people, having crushed the Fascist beast, strengthening and fortifying revolutionary vigilance, will continue its heroic struggle for the happy future of human kind.

Source: Nicolas Slonimsky, ed., Music since 1900 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971), p. 1358.