UPTI Affair
Encyclopedia
The UPTI Affair was a criminal case against a number of scientists of the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute
by the GUGB during 1938, during the Great Purge
.
Three physicists, Lev Landau
, Yuri Rumer and Moisey Korets were arrested for publishing a leaflet entitled Workers of the World, Unite. Landau was subsequently released.
The great cause of the October Revolution is being despicably betrayed. The country is inundated with torrents of blood and filth. Millions of innocent people are being thrown into prisons and no one can tell when his own turn will come.
It is clear, comrades, that the Stalinist clique has carried out a fascist coup. Socialism has remained only on the pages of the habitually lying newspapers. In his rabid hatred of genuine socialism, Stalin is no different from Hitler and Mussolini. Destroying the country for the sake of his own power, Stalin is turning it into an easy prey for the brutal German fascism.
The only way out for the working class and for all toilers of our country is a struggle against Stalinism and Hitlerist fascism, a struggle for socialism."
Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology
The Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology is the oldest and largest physical science research centre in the Ukraine.This was where the UPTI Affair occurred in 1938.-External links:*...
by the GUGB during 1938, during the Great Purge
Great Purge
The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1938...
.
Three physicists, Lev Landau
Lev Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics...
, Yuri Rumer and Moisey Korets were arrested for publishing a leaflet entitled Workers of the World, Unite. Landau was subsequently released.
Text of leaflet
"Comrades!The great cause of the October Revolution is being despicably betrayed. The country is inundated with torrents of blood and filth. Millions of innocent people are being thrown into prisons and no one can tell when his own turn will come.
It is clear, comrades, that the Stalinist clique has carried out a fascist coup. Socialism has remained only on the pages of the habitually lying newspapers. In his rabid hatred of genuine socialism, Stalin is no different from Hitler and Mussolini. Destroying the country for the sake of his own power, Stalin is turning it into an easy prey for the brutal German fascism.
The only way out for the working class and for all toilers of our country is a struggle against Stalinism and Hitlerist fascism, a struggle for socialism."