9 January 1935.

It is essential to make more active and aggressive the unmasking of the anti-Soviet campaign in connection with the shooting of the counterrevolutionary terrorists. Explain better to the masses that the reformists' and other [groups'] resolutions of protest against the shooting of terrorists are, in fact, an open demonstration within the framework of the anti-Soviet bourgeois front, a defense of and solidarity with the White Guards, the worst enemies of the working class [and] the proletarian state. Explain that the violence against white terrorists was undertaken in the interests of protecting millions of workers from a cruel class enemy and is an act of genuine humanism. While doing so, it is necessary to make good use of the telegrams published on 5 January in the newspapers. In order to confuse the masses, French reformists are talking about the execution of hundreds of workers. It is necessary to decisively refute this insolent lie. Those executed were accessories to Kirov's murder and were linked to other White Guard terrorists who had infiltrated the Soviet Union from abroad with bombs and explosive charges with the goal of organizing attempts on the lives of the representatives of Soviet power. We cannot limit ourselves to a press campaign only. It is important to raise a wave of protest among the organizations of socialist parties [and] reformist and other trade unions against the position of the leaders of these organizations. For this purpose, it is necessary to use these local organizations of the Union of Friends of the Soviet Union. Encourage the sending of telegrams of support, resolutions from delegations of reformist and revolutionary organizations, from committee meetings, from production collectives, etc., to Soviet representatives. It is essential to provide better information about the facts of the white terror, which in some countries has grown to an unheard-of scale, while giving a free hand to the friends of those who protest against the shooting of the White Guardsmen.