(Mir Seyyit Sultan Galiyev), (13 Temmuz 1892 - 28 Ocak 1939 ).
MUSTAFA SUPHİ KAZAN SOVYETİNDE
SÖMÜRGELER MESELESİ BlZİM BAŞLICAMESELEMİZDİR.
V. I. Lenin TO S. G. SAID-GALIEV
The First Arrest (1923)
This was the first arrest of a prominent Party member upon the initiative of Stalin. Unfortunately Zinoviev and I gave our consent".
(Leon, Trotsky: 'Stalin': New York; 1941; p. 417)
....following Sultan-Galiyev's arrest, some Tatar Communists demanded his release on the grounds that the letters concerned in the case were were "forgeries", an investigation was held:
"What did the investigation reveal? It revealed that all the documents were genuine. Their genuineness was admitted by Sultan-Galiyev himself, who, in fact, gave more information about his sins than is contained in the documents, who fully confessed his guilt and, after confessing, repented". (Josef,V. Stalin: ibid.; p. 312)."I have been reproached...... with having defended Sultan-Galiyev excessively. It is true that I defended him as long as it was possible, and I considered, and still consider, that it was my duty to do so. But I defended him only up to a certain point. "" (Josef V. Stalin: Speech on the Sultan-Galiyev Case. 4th Conference of the Central Committee of the RCP
