Expel Rudzutak and Tukhachevsky
Politbiuro, Resolution to expel Rudzutak and Tukhachevskii. May 1937
Original Source: RTsKhIDNI, f. 17, op. 2, d. 615, l. 68.
No. 3690
24 May 1937
To the members and candidate members of the CC VKP(b)
The Central Committee has received information implicating CC member Rudzutak and CC candidate member Tukhachevskii in participation in an anti-Soviet, Trotskyite-rightist conspiratorial bloc and in espionage work against the USSR on behalf of fascist Germany. In connection with this, the Politbiuro of the CC VKP(b) puts to a vote to members and candidate members of the CC VKP(b) the proposal to expel Rudzutak and Tukhachevskii from the party and transfer their cases to the NKVD.
Secretary of the CC VKP(b) I. Stalin
{marginal notes, in cursive}
Unconditionally yes. It's necessary to finish off this scum. S. Budennyi, 25.5.37 11:20
I vote for the motion of the Politbiuro. 25 May 1937. Unshlikht.
Source: J. Arch Getty and Oleg Naumov, eds., The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-39 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 160.