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again told to give up the bandits and their weapons. ose who wish to comply with
the demands are separated, divided into groups of a hundred, and each hundred is put
through a questioning commission (consisting of representatives of the Special Sector
and the Military Tribunal). Each person must give a testimony, and not be allowed to
claim ignorance. In the event of stubbornness, new executions are enacted, etc. From
the material obtained through the questioning, expeditionary units are formed with
the compulsory inclusion of the persons who gave the testimony, and they venture to
capture the bandits. Upon the end of the purge, the siege is ended, and a revolutionary
committee and militia are established to rule the area.
e current Plenipotentiary Commission of the All-Russia Central Executive
Committee orders to execute this order fully.

Chairman of the Commission
Antonov-Ovseenko

Troops Commander
Tukhachevski

Tukhachevski and all other participants of that war against their own people declared
themselves heroes of the Civil War.
Pay particular attention to the date of Tukhachevski’s order: June 23, 1921. Twenty
years later, Russia would be invaded by different occupants, but they would act in almost
the same way. e difference was that Hitler herded the enemy’s population into a ravine
and machine-gunned them, while Tukhachevski, on top of this, besieged the entire popula-
tion of his own country with a mutual criminal responsibility. Later on this method would
be called, in the criminal underworld, “forced snitching.” is is precisely what Antonov-
Ovseenko, Tukhachevski, his deputy Uborevich, and all other strategists did: they forced
all the people to become traitors and rats, forced them to betray their neighbors, relatives,
fathers, and brothers, and then go after them in the forests and kill them. Tukhachevski
introduced universal betrayal, using fear to crush and destroy the centuries-old Russian vil-
lage morale. He replaced all moral codes with fear for one’s own skin, and made each person
accountable for all the others’ deeds. Tukhachevski’s idea was to crush the people’s sense of
their own worth. When we speak of the defeats of 1941, we blame Stalin. Let us not forget
that the crushing of the people was done under the immediate command and on the initia-
tive of the very same strategists who were later, during the purges, eliminated by Stalin.
In 1941, the masses who were taught by Tukhachevski to value only their own skin a
priori could not have exhibited heroism.
Here is the reason for the army purges of 1937: Stalin was preparing for war against
Germany. He decided to beat his country, the Army included, into submission. As a by-
product of the purges, Stalin got rid of the bloodiest executioners: of Antonov-Ovseenko,
Tukhachevski, Yakir, Uborevich, Blukher, and others like them. Such “troop leaders” could
not be placed in positions to lead the masses mobilized for war. Soldiers would not follow
these commanders into battle and, given the opportunity, would remember and remind these
hatchet men of the crimes they committed during the previous two decades against their
parents and older brothers.