Trotsky wos murdered and where she lived until a yeor before her own doath should be turned into: a museun.
Esteban’ Volkev had alroady reveolod this wish of his’ grandmother when public ceremonies were held in Coyoaoan at the tine her ashes were broucht to Ilexico. Natalia Trotaky died in Paris - January 23 names of cancer. She was aigney years old. | NEW PAORS_ ON FRAME-UP Or agacuienes
The popular weekly magazine Oronyek (Little Plane), which went..on the. newsstands in i:osco feset 24, contains an article. sicned by IHikeuline which reveols inportant:. new facts about the frame-up of. iarshal Hilchail Tukhechevsky, the Red aces, apet, out~ stending general,: in 1937.
Seer ‘confirms reperts published te other ewneteal that on Hitler's orders, German Army intelligence chief Reinhard © Heydrioch.forged Tukhachevsky's name to incriminating documents which were then successfully planted on the Csech intelligence - service. These wore turned over to Cseoh President duand . Benes who passed them on to Stalin in the fall of 1936. : "Stelin used then Ps order tho itil to sentence Tukhsohevaky
‘the sacasiné does not dincuso the apeculation that the doocue ments were first manufactured by the GFU under Stalin's orders . and then planted on tho Gestape. It thus leaves open the: possi- . bility that. Stalin was cenuinely taken in by Hitler® 8 y Bet to have Stalin hinself decapitate the Red Arny. . } “(he Kremlin ‘announced. Juno 12, 1937, that Tukhachevaky had | been shet together with seven other tor sommonders of the Red — | Arny. These. perpen narked the beginning of a bleed bath that . Pee pag the Army officer staff in the face of. Hitler's preperetions to. attack the Soviet Union. .
At the tine, ‘Leon Trotsky denounced the secret trials as
.and accused Stalin of opening up the defenses of the “ Sevact Inien and facilitating an on by German imperialisn. For. suoti’ wornincs, the Stalinistsa denounced 7 as a "traitor" working ina "pact" with litler.
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Of the Sitne judges who acted on Stalin's oxters to condemn SoRhechers) 7) six were later murdored by Stalin. .
Oron: yok reveals that Stalin porsonally ordercd the wubter of Tukhoe evely's ared mother, his. sister Sophie ‘and hie brothers Aloxonéer and Hicholas, Three other sistors wero sent to sleve= labor camps, When Tuklachevaky's dauchter reached the ace of sixteon, she too was deported. Jhat happened to 7 ore wife is unimown. Sho “disappeared ."
Takhaohevery was one of a group of con careor : officers in the Czarist forces who went over to tho Red Arry when it was’ organised by Leon Trotsky. Under Trotsky's command, Tukhbachevsky distinguished himself in the difficult yearn of war when the. oti powers ‘sought to crush the young workers‘ state.
Trotsky had high regard for Tukhachevsky's sxinigey ¢ talents but rated him mediocre in political capacity. It was under Tukhbacheveky that such sei niece as parachutists vere introduced: inte modern werfore,
“Phere was no doubt about fukhachevsly' s conpiate loyalty ‘to “ _Saviat ‘Union and to its civilian. authorities. Stalin, fearing:
soible focus of ofposition to his totalitarian rule, wanted the "hs liant ceneral out of tho read alonc with every major. anager
any way associetod with Lenin and Trotsky as outstanding ~apulaparatore: of the two founderp of the Soviet Union. Sueh cures: were framed+up by Stalin on charges of eens out" to Nitler and. ost often shot as “foooiot mad dogs.” .
Irom the article in Oconyok, it appears that the author aid not have available the toneceetet of the secret c ial. Whether this means that it was Apotrecel by Staelin or that at is too iamoging to. hrushchev or others now prominent in the Soviet - - government cannot, of course, be doternined, Twe of Tukhaohevaky* s nine Judges, Voronhilov and udenny, are still alive,’
Vhiy the article should bo published at this time peneine obscure. It is to bo noted, however, that Tukhachevaky: was: among the first of Stalin's viotins to be rohabilitated following Khrushehev's famous adnissions of Stalin's crines at the Swentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist porty., eo
- Army. ‘offictalo havo lon: doen bitter over what Stalin asa te Soviet defenses on the eve of Hitler's invaston. Since Tukhacheve- . sky's rehabilitation, army periodicals have carried many articles about bin and the tradition hoe roprossntod. in the: tiilitary adsfense of the Soviet Union.
Publication. of an: : artiole about Stalin's under: of Dukhachewaky and his oclese relativos also provides a certain counterbalance -to. Khrushchev's recent step: backward in de-Stalinization when, . admitting that he “shed tears” over bis coffin, he decors the.
= Ja late dictator anc denounced those who would go-."too far" in demoting hin.