9/10 March 1940 No. 01629

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TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL.

In connection with the case of the for[mer] member of the Communist Party of Hungary (former People's Commissar for the Military Affairs of the Hungarian Soviet Republic) SZÁNTÓ Béla Aleksandrovich, which was forwarded to the Office of Military Procurator of the Moscow Military District for evaluation, in order to ensure the most complete and thorough inquiry in the case, I ask you to communicate [answers to] the following: [In margin: To c. Privorotskaia/Prepare the answer / 13/III Guliaev.] 1.) Whether, since 1927, SZÁNTÓ has had differences with the rest of the CC CP of Hungary regarding questions of party work. [What was] the essence of these differences? 2.) Whether the condemnation of SZÁNTÓ's line on this issue by the Political

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Secretariat of the Comintern in November 1929 and by the Second Congress of the CP of Hungary was a result of the CC having incorrect information about his actual position at that time. 3.) Whether that CC of the CP of Hungary was exposed and dissolved by the decision of the Comintern. 4.) [What was] the essence of the differences between SZÁNTÓ, Béla, and Béla KUN in 1935? 5.) [What was] the decision of the International Control Commission about SZÁNTÓ regarding his differences with the CC of the CP of Hungary in 1935? 6.) Whether the CC of the CP of Hungary was dissolved in 1936 and what the reason was for its dissolution. 7.) Whether after the Seventh Comintern Congress the newly elected CC ordered SZÁNTÓ Béla to write a book on the history of the Hungarian revolution.