Extremism in Lenin’s works - historian Vladimir Lavrov’s appeal to the Investigative Committee. Lenin about the “fight against religion and the destruction of priests” So the sniffles about billions of priests being shot by Comrade Lenin personally are more far-fetched than substantiated

Her as an argument. It’s worth going over this “document” again, which “proves” Lenin’s bloodthirstiness. Fortunately, there is now an excellent resource where revealing materials on almost all anti-Soviet myths are collected.

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Summary of the myth

Lenin signed an order from the Cheka, which ordered the execution of all priests. The myth is used to “prove” Lenin’s pathological hatred not only of religion, but also of any of its manifestations and servants.

Examples of using

“In 1919, Lenin ordered the execution of priests, namely Orthodox priests, since Lenin saw in them a threat to his, although cannibalistic, but quite “reformist” teaching.”

Reality

A. Latyshev, author of the book “Declassified Lenin” and articles like this one: “On the declassification of Lenin’s works. To the 132nd anniversary of his birth,” talks about his work in the archives: “...after the August 1991 events. I was given a special pass to familiarize myself with secret documents about Lenin. The authorities thought to find the reason for the coup in the past. I sat in the archives from morning to evening, and my hair stood on end. After all, I always believed in Lenin, but after the first thirty documents I read, I was simply shocked.”

What documents shook Mr. Latyshev’s faith so much? For example, this one:

“... Let us present the completely terrible document, which was repeatedly published in facsimile version:

Chairman of the Cheka Comrade. Dzerzhinsky F.E.

NOTE

In accordance with the decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council. Nar. The commissars need to put an end to priests and religion as quickly as possible. Popovs should be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, and shot mercilessly and everywhere. And as much as possible. Churches are subject to closure. The premises of the temples should be sealed and turned into warehouses. Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Kalinin, Chairman of the Council. Nar. Commissars Ulyanov (Lenin)".

The outgoing number contains the number of the devil!

Like this: mercilessly shoot all Orthodox priests, turn all Orthodox churches into warehouses.

(Typical is the publication in the communist Pravda of the resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks dated November 11, 1939, signed by I. Stalin: “Instruction of Comrade Lenin dated May 1, 1919 No. 13666/2 “On the fight against priests and religion,” addressed to the Chairman of the Cheka F.E. Dzerzhinsky, and all relevant instructions of the OGPU-NKVD regarding the persecution of Church ministers and Orthodox believers - CANCEL.")"

You can't say anything - it's a terrible document. It makes your hair stand on end and smells of sulfur...

However, having coped with the first attack of fear, we notice that:

During the entire period of their activity, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars did not issue a single document with the title “Instruction”, only resolutions and decrees signed by the heads of these bodies. Anyone can verify this personally by looking at the collections “Decrees of the Soviet Power”. Moreover, in the practice of Soviet party and state office work, there never existed documents with the title “Instruction”.

On May 1, 1919, M.I. Kalinin was physically unable to sign any “Instruction”, since at that time he was traveling to the Eastern Front.

No serial numbers were assigned to such documents. However, serial number 13666/2 implies the presence of many thousands of such “instructions” in government records. Where are they?

According to the director of RGASPI K.M. Anderson, all documents of the Lenin Foundation have been declassified and are available to researchers, since they do not contain state secrets. "Lenin's Directive of May 1, 1919" is absent in RGASPI... Among Lenin’s papers dating back to May 1, 1919, there are no anti-religious ones - these are several resolutions of the Small Council of People’s Commissars signed by him, and they all relate to minor economic issues.

Missing “Lenin’s Directive of May 1, 1919” and in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, where the funds of the Council of People's Commissars and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee are stored.

The Central Archive of the FSB of Russia and the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation gave a negative review of the presence of this “document” in their official letters.

There was no secret “decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of 1917-1919. about the need to “put an end to priests and religion as quickly as possible,” in pursuance of which “Lenin’s Directive of May 1, 1919” as if it had been released. By the way, Latyshev forgot a “small” detail - he did not indicate the number, date, or name of this “decision”.

There are no “instructions of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD” with references to this “instruction”, there are no documents about its implementation.

There was no publication in Pravda.

On November 11, 1939, there really were decisions of the Politburo. However, they did not concern church issues.

As you can see, this Directive from Lenin is a pure fake.

Who needed it?

Judge for yourself:

Extract from the budget of Yeltsin's election headquarters, 1996:
“...The book “Declassified Lenin”. 95 million rub. Approved. Paid."

Recently, at the instigation of President Putin, a hysterical wave has swept through the media regarding the discussion of “Lenin’s legacy.”

Everything would be fine, but somehow we feel ashamed of our respected representatives of government and society, who, without blinking an eye, accuse Lenin of literally every conceivable and inconceivable crime. At the same time, most of Lenin’s detractors use outright fakes and lies. It is high time for our ruling elite to discard the Perestroika garbage and begin to really study the materiel.

Let's look at one of the hundreds of charges. Our accuser will be the respected Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky, in whose biography there is a mention of his studies at theUniversity of Marxism-Leninism .

So, graduate University of Marxism-Leninism, who studied the history of the CPSU, political economy, dialectical and historical materialism, scientific communism several decades later as part of the curriculum, January 28, 2016, in the author’s program Vladimir Solovyov "Duel" accused Lenin of killing a million Cossacks.

Here's the quote:

“...Who gave you the right? Even after the seizure of power, elections are held. And when they see that they are a minority in the Constituent Assembly, disperse them and shoot them.

Cossacks, Dzerzhinsky telegraphs Lenin: I have a million Cossacks, what should I do? Shoot! Well, what is it? Who gave the right? Well, you are in power. You are the enemies of the Russian people...”

The accusation was made. The accusation is weighty, especially from the lips of a respected statesman who tried to become President five times. Let's look at the proof.

The materials of certain historians Yu. G. Felshtinsky and G. Nazarov actually mention Dzerzhinsky’s telegram to Lenin dated December 19, 1919, and nowhere is there a reference to an archival document, and the mention itself is woven into the fabric of the polemical correspondence of these historians with Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor A.I. Zevelev. Correspondence was conducted in 1999 on the pages of several media outlets regarding the provocative article by Yu. G. Felshtinsky “The Mystery of Lenin’s Death.”

As part of this correspondence, a telegram with the following content is mentioned as a justification for Lenin’s cruelty and mercilessness:

“In Rostov, 300,000 Cossacks of the Don Army were captured,” wrote Felix Edmundovich on December 19, 1919. “In the Novocherkassk region, more than 200,000 Cossacks of the Don and Kuban Army are being held captive.

In the city of Shakhty and Kamensk, more than 500,000 Cossacks are held. Recently, about a million Cossacks surrendered.

The prisoners are located as follows: in Gelendzhik - about 150,000 people, Krasnodar - about 500,000 people, Belorechenskaya - about 150,000 people, Maikop - about 200,000 people, Temryuk - about 50,000 people.

I ask for sanctions.

Chairman of the V.Ch.K. Dzerzhinsky".

Lenin's resolution on the letter: "Shoot every last one. December 30, 1919."

At first glance, this is indeed evidence of unreasonable cruelty, however, only at first glance. Because the “historians” Yu. G. Felshtinsky and G. Nazarov are openly planting a fake and even a third grade student can prove this , carefully studying the history of his native land.

So, let's turn to the text of the telegram and remember the date it was written December 30, 1919 :

«… In the city of Shakhty...”

Shakhty is a city in the Rostov region on the Grushevka River. In 1867, the Grushevskoye mountain settlement was formed with the status of a city. In 1881-1921. The city was called Aleksandrovsk-Grushevsky. In January 1921 it was renamed Shakhty .

“...Krasnodar - about 500,000 people...”

Krasnodar is a city in southern Russia, located on the right bank of the Kuban River; until 1920 the city was called Ekaterinodar.

December 7, 1920 By decree of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR, the city was renamed Krasnodar. The reason for such a resolution was a telegram sent on November 7 signed by the pre-Kubcheroblrevkom Ya. V. Poluyan.

But that is not all…

Gelendzhik - March 15, 1920 occupied by partisans
Maykop was occupied by the Red Army on March 22, 1920;

Temryuk - March 1920;

It turns out that Dzerzhinsky could not have sent such a telegram in December 1919. We are being cruelly led by the nose. And hundreds of such fairy tales have been invented...

In the next program “The Meaning of the Game-101” S.E. Kurginyan examines only a few of them...

Here it is worth mentioning the distributor of the fakes, Yu. G. Felshtinsky. This person, in addition to his historical “sophistications,” distinguished himself by allegedly co-authoring with Litvinenko (and there is evidence that he himself, without help), wrote the book “ FSB blows up Russia”, in which he unprovenly accuses the Russian special services of organizing terrorist attacks on Russian territory.

In 2002 Mikhail Rostovsky stated in the newspaper " Moscow's comsomolets"that Felshtinsky was one of the "main political advisers Boris Berezovsky».

So, it turns out that outright Russophobes and servants of the West are spreading falsehoods, which our government and political elite seize on and “promote to the masses.” It must be said that the myth under discussion is firmly embedded in the evidence of the crimes of the Bolsheviks in many sources and “revelations.”
The following conclusion should also be drawn: Zhirinovsky as a politician, taking into account fabricated evidence Yu. G. Felshtinsky,legitimizes not only this lie, but alsoindirectly participates in accusing our special services and Putin of organizing terrorist attacks, that is, he participates in undermining the existing Russian political system of which he is a part.

Isn’t it time to stop... Enough... We’ve eaten...

We want to know the real history of our Motherland, and not the collective tales of Zhirinovsky, Mlechin, Svanidze, Pivovarov, etc.

In conclusion, I would like to quote Lenin himself.

“...For what reason are you saying incredibly angry words? Regarding the fact that several dozen (or at least even hundreds) of cadet and near-cadet gentlemen will sit in prison for several days to prevent conspiracies like the surrender of Krasnaya Gorka, conspiracies that threaten the death of tens of thousands of workers and peasants.

What a disaster, just think! What an injustice!.. It is wrong to confuse the “intellectual forces” of the people with the “forces” of bourgeois intellectuals. I’ll take Korolenko as an example: I recently read his pamphlet “War, Fatherland and Humanity,” written in August 1917.

Korolenko is, after all, the best of the “near-cadets”, almost a Menshevik. And what a vile, vile, vile defense of the imperialist war, covered up with sugary phrases! A pathetic bourgeois, captivated by bourgeois prejudices!

For such gentlemen, 10,000,000 killed in the imperialist war is a cause that deserves support (in deeds, with sugary phrases “against” the war), and the death of hundreds of thousands in a just civil war against landowners and capitalists causes gasps, groans, sighs, and hysterics.

No, it’s not a sin for such “talents” to spend a week in prison if this needs to be done to prevent conspiracies (like Krasnaya Gorka) and the death of tens of thousands. And we discovered these conspiracies of the cadets and “near-cadets”...

The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and strengthening in the struggle to overthrow the bourgeoisie and its accomplices, intellectuals, lackeys of capital, who imagine themselves to be the brains of the nation.

In fact, it’s not the brain, but g...” We pay above-average salaries to the “intellectual forces” who want to bring science to the people (and not serve capital).

It is a fact. We take care of them.

It is a fact. Tens of thousands of officers serve the Red Army and win despite hundreds of traitors. It is a fact..."

Citizen ukulele_fan told me yesterday in the post Bolsheviks and Hostages: In general, it’s enough to turn to Lenin’s letters and see how many times the word “shoot” appears there. Interesting discoveries await even the most knowledgeable people.

And I decided that I needed to see what Lenin wrote about the executions. To do this, I took volumes 35-42 of the PSS, covering the period from October 1917 to March 1921, i.e. during the civil war and looked.
There is a conversation about executions 30 times (unless, of course, you count examples of historical events and we are not talking about executions among whites), and by 1920 the conversation about executions practically stops, and in volume 42 (November 1920 - March 1921 ) there is no mention at all.

So, especially for “interesting discoveries”:

I believe that any regiment is sufficiently organized to maintain the necessary revolutionary order. If the moment when the soldiers go to negotiate a truce is used for treason, if an attack is carried out during fraternization, then the duty of the soldiers is to shoot the traitors immediately without formalities.

Thousands of forms and methods of practical accounting and control over the rich, swindlers and parasites must be developed and tested in practice by the communes themselves, small cells in the countryside and in the city... In one place a dozen rich people, a dozen swindlers, half a dozen workers shirking from work will be imprisoned (in the same hooligan manner as many typesetters in St. Petersburg shirking their work, especially in party printing houses). In another, they will be assigned to clean toilets. In the third, after leaving the punishment cell, they will be provided with yellow tickets, so that the whole people, until they are reformed, will supervise them as harmful people. In the fourth, one out of ten guilty of parasitism will be shot on the spot...

The facts of abuse are obvious, the profiteering is monstrous... Until we apply terror - shooting on the spot - to speculators, nothing will come of it... In addition, we must also deal decisively with robbers - shoot on the spot.

The detachments shoot red-handed and fully exposed speculators on the spot. Members of detachments exposed to dishonesty are subject to the same punishment... Revolutionary detachments, whenever drawing up a protocol of requisition, arrest or execution, attract witnesses of at least six people, necessarily selected from the poorest population located in the immediate vicinity.

The Council of People's Commissars proposes to the All-Russian Food Council and the Food Commissariat to strengthen the sending of not only commissars, but also numerous armed detachments for the most revolutionary measures of moving goods, collecting and pouring grain, etc., as well as for a merciless fight against speculators, up to the proposal to local Soviets shoot exposed speculators and saboteurs on the spot.

German generals want to establish their “order” in Petrograd and Kiev. The Socialist Republic of Soviets is in the greatest danger. Until the moment when the German proletariat rises and wins, the sacred duty of the workers and peasants of Russia is the selfless defense of the Soviet Republic against the hordes of bourgeois-imperialist Germany. The Council of People's Commissars decides: ... The workers and peasants of Petrograd, Kyiv and all cities, towns, villages and villages along the new front must mobilize battalions to dig trenches under the leadership of military specialists. These battalions should include all able-bodied members of the bourgeois class, men and women, under the supervision of the Red Guards; those who resist are to be shot... Enemy agents, speculators, thugs, hooligans, counter-revolutionary agitators, German spies are shot on the spot... Everyone with weapons must obtain a new permit (a) from their local house committee; (b) from the institutions specified in § 2. Without two permits, it is prohibited to have weapons; Violation of this rule is punishable by execution. The same punishment for hiding food supplies.

In order to continue the nationalization of banks and move steadily towards turning banks into key points of public accounting under socialism, it is necessary, first of all and most of all, to achieve real success in increasing the number of branches for the public to make deposits of the People's Bank, in attracting deposits, in facilitating the execution of bribe-takers and swindlers and issuing money, eliminating “tails” in the capture, etc.

... all the elements of the disintegration of the old society, inevitably very numerous, associated primarily with the petty bourgeoisie (for every war and every crisis ruins and destroys them first of all), may not “show themselves” with such a deep revolution. And the elements of decay cannot “show themselves” otherwise than by increasing crimes, hooliganism, bribery, speculation, and outrages of all kinds. Dealing with this takes time and requires an iron hand. There has not been a single great revolution in history when the people did not instinctively feel this and show saving firmness, shooting thieves at the scene of the crime.

As the main task of the government becomes not military suppression, but management, the typical manifestation of suppression and coercion will become not execution on the spot, but trial.

In this regard, the Mensheviks, who are striving to overthrow Soviet power, are on their side, on the side of the bourgeoisie, and thereby they betray us. When we use executions, they turn into Tolstoyans and shed crocodile tears, shouting about our cruelty. They forgot how they hid secret treaties in their pockets. They, together with Kerensky, drove the workers to the slaughterhouse, forgot about it and turned into meek Christians caring about mercy. Without weapons we will not be able to suppress our enemies, they understand this very well, but they still try to discredit us.

after the words: “rob the loot,” a divergence begins between the proletarian revolution, which says: count the loot and don’t let it be pulled apart, and if they drag it to you directly or indirectly, then shoot such violators of discipline...

The rifle was a very good thing when it was necessary to shoot a war against us, when it was necessary to catch thieves stealing and shoot. But when Comrade Bukharin said that there are people who receive 4000, that they should be put against the wall and shot - wrong.

I ask you to put on the order of the day the question of expelling from the party those members who, being judges in the case (2. V. 1918) of bribe-takers, with a bribe proven and admitted by them, were limited to a sentence of 1/2 year in prison. Instead of shooting bribe-takers, passing such mockingly weak and lenient sentences is a shameful act for a communist and revolutionary. Such comrades must be prosecuted in the court of public opinion and expelled from the party, for they belong next to the Kerenskys or Martovs, and not next to the communist revolutionaries.

Mobilize the army, highlighting its healthy units, and call on 19-year-olds, at least in some areas, for systematic military operations to conquer, recapture, collect and transport grain and fuel. Introduce execution for indiscipline. for example, the threat of shooting the tenth - for each case of robbery.

The question must be posed in such a way that each member of the board, each member of the responsible institution takes the matter into his own hands, being entirely responsible for it. It is absolutely necessary that anyone who takes over a certain industry should be responsible for everything: both production and distribution. I must tell you that the situation of our Soviet Republic is such that, with the correct distribution of bread and other products, we can hold out for a very, very long time. But for this we certainly need a correct policy of a decisive break with all red tape, we need to act quickly and decisively, we need to appoint certain persons to certain responsible work, it is necessary that each of these persons definitely knows his job, is definitely responsible for it, being responsible right up to execution .

The Soviet government has already shot quite a few people who were caught, for example, in bribery, and the fight against such scoundrels will be brought to the end.

Most of the Mensheviks went over to the side of the bourgeoisie and fought against us during the civil war. We, of course, persecute the Mensheviks, we even shoot them when they fight our Red Army in the war against us and shoot our Red commanders. We responded to the war of the bourgeoisie with a war of the proletariat - there can be no other outcome.

Prosecute more strictly and punish by execution for false denunciations.

We shoot and will continue to shoot captured bandits, grabbers, and adventurers.

Shooting is the legal fate of a coward in war.

Collecting weapons from the population is one of the components of this work. That in a country that has experienced four years of imperialist war, then two popular revolutions, a lot of weapons are hidden among the peasants and the bourgeoisie, this is natural, it has grown out of all inevitable. But now, with Denikin’s menacing invasion, we need strength to fight this. Whoever hides or helps to hide weapons is the greatest criminal against workers and peasants, he deserves to be shot, for he is the culprit in the death of thousands and thousands of the best Red Army soldiers, who often die only because of a lack of weapons at the fronts.

Hundreds and hundreds of military experts are betraying us and will be betraying us, we will catch them and shoot them, but we have thousands and tens of thousands of military experts working systematically and for a long time, without whom the Red Army that grew out of the damned memory in the east could not have been created. which the Red Army could not have created, which grew out of the cursed memory of partisanship and managed to win brilliant victories in the east.

Our job is to pose the question directly. What's better? Should we catch and put in prison, sometimes even shoot hundreds of traitors from the Cadets, non-party members, Mensheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries, “speakers” (some with weapons, some with a conspiracy, some with agitation against mobilization, like printers or railway workers from the Mensheviks, etc. ) - against Soviet power, that is, for Denikin? Or bring things to the point of allowing Kolchak and Denikin to kill, shoot, flog to death tens of thousands of workers and peasants? The choice is not difficult. The question stands this way and only this way.

I propose to supplement the decision of the Politburo (measures against Mamontov): to shoot immediately for failure to leave the carriages...

A non-party conference of workers' trade unions took place in White Guard Estland... The conference demanded the conclusion of peace with Russia... Then the conference was dispersed. One hundred people were sent to Russia “to look for Bolshevism”; They detained 26 people and intend to shoot them. We responded to such an action by the White Guard of Estonia with an appeal to the population of their country, and we declared to their government that we would shoot all the hostages who are with us. (Applause.)

So, although on the initiative of Comrade Dzerzhinsky after the capture of Rostov the death penalty was abolished, at the very beginning a reservation was made that we would not turn a blind eye to the possibility of reinstating executions. For us, this question is determined by expediency. It goes without saying that the Soviet government will not maintain the death penalty longer than necessary, and in this regard, by abolishing the death penalty, the Soviet government took a step that no democratic government has ever taken in any bourgeois republic.

The unity of will was expressed in the fact that if someone put his own interests, the interests of his village, or group above the general interests, he was branded a selfish person, he was shot, and this shooting was justified by the moral consciousness of the working class that he must go to victory. We spoke openly about these executions, we said that we do not hide violence, because we realize that we cannot leave the old society without coercion from the backward part of the proletariat. This is where the unity of will was expressed. And this unity of will was carried out in practice in the punishment of every deserter, in every battle, in every campaign, when the communists walked ahead, setting an example.

We must learn to distinguish the person who gave the bandits money and weapons in order to reduce the evil the bandits bring and make it easier to catch and shoot the bandits, from the person who gives the bandits money and weapons in order to participate in the division of bandit loot.

We are afraid of excessive expansion of the party, because careerists and scoundrels who deserve only to be shot inevitably try to join the government party.

... although the Kuban Cossack is rich in grain, he saw perfectly well what these promises of the Constituent Assembly, democracy, etc. meant. beautiful things that the Socialist-Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, etc. smear on the lips of fools. Perhaps the Kuban peasants believed them when they spoke so eloquently, but as a result they believed not in words, but in deeds; they saw that the Bolsheviks, although strict people, were still better off with them. As a result of this, Wrangel flew from the Kuban, and many hundreds and thousands of his troops were shot.

And, as always, we draw our own conclusions

Let's consider another “document” that suddenly emerged “from the archives” during perestroika, in which Lenin allegedly orders widespread executions of priests and a harsh fight against religion. In perestroika fakes, when they received carte blanche for their production, there is one stunning similarity; their manufacturers were so keen on stuffing their fantasies into them that they were completely divorced from reality and did not even try to somehow imitate Lenin’s vocabulary and manner of composing business documents. paper. Well, the separation from reality is understandable - when there are no documents or facts, and it is very necessary to attribute to this or that Bolshevik figure the actions or qualities required by the customer, then they were fantasized, but banal gross mistakes in forging “documents” are probably associated with ignorance and high patronage, thanks to which the likelihood of exposure at the time of the sudden appearance of a fake in the media was reduced to zero. Those. the effect was achieved by publishing a fake, and no one cared about the reaction in hindsight, the information poison was already corrupting the public consciousness. Here: Lenin’s “letter” to Molotov with orders for “mass repressions of the reactionary clergy” was examined, and now a later perestroika forgery in the form of Lenin’s “letter” to Dzerzhinsky, with even more monstrous “orders.” Source of analysis of the fake: http://yuriyc.livejournal.com/104067.html. On the top photo: Vladimir Lenin in Smolny at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, early 1918.

Declassified Latyshev (Lenin's "Instruction 13666/2")

A. Latyshev, author of the book “Declassified Lenin” and articles like this: “ON THE DECLASSIFICATION OF LENIN’S WORKS. On the 132nd anniversary of his birth,” talks about his work in the archives: “...after the August events of 1991. I was given a special pass to get acquainted with secret documents about Lenin. The authorities thought to find the reason for the coup in the past. I sat in the archives from morning to evening, and my hair stood on end. After all, I always believed in Lenin, but after the first thirty documents I read, I was simply shocked. "

What documents shook Mr. Latyshev’s faith so much? For example, this one:

"...Here is a completely terrible document, which was repeatedly published in facsimile version:

Chairman of the Cheka Comrade. Dzerzhinsky F.E.

NOTE

The outgoing number contains the number of the devil!

Like this: mercilessly shoot all Orthodox priests, turn all Orthodox churches into warehouses.

(Typical is the publication in the communist Pravda of the resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks dated November 11, 1939, signed by I. Stalin: “Instruction of Comrade Lenin dated May 1, 1919 No. 13666/2 “On the fight against priests and religion,” addressed to the Chairman of the Cheka F.E. Dzerzhinsky, and all relevant instructions of the OPTU-NKVD regarding the persecution of Church ministers and Orthodox believers - CANCEL.")"

________________________________________ _________

You can't say anything - it's a terrible document. It makes your hair stand on end and smells of sulfur...

However, having coped with the first attack of fear, we notice that:

1. The All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars have not issued a single document with the title "Instruction" for the entire period of their activity, only resolutions and decrees signed by the heads of these bodies. Anyone can verify this personally by looking at the collections “Decrees of Soviet Power”.
Moreover, in the practice of party and state office work, there have never been documents with the title “Instruction”.

2. No serial numbers were assigned to such documents. However, serial number 13666/2 implies the presence of many thousands of such “instructions” in government records. WHERE ARE THEY?

3. "Lenin's instruction of May 1, 1919." is absent from RGASPI, although all documents today (except for his medical history) have been declassified.

4. Among Lenin’s papers dating back to May 1, 1919, there are no anti-religious ones - these are several resolutions of the Small Council of People’s Commissars signed by him, and they all relate to minor economic issues.

5. “Lenin’s Directive of May 1, 1919” is missing. and in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, where the funds of the Council of People's Commissars and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee are stored.

6. The Central Archive of the FSB of Russia and the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation gave a negative review of the presence of this “document” in their official letters.

7. There was no secret “decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of 1917–1919 on the need to “put an end to priests and religion as quickly as possible,” in pursuance of which “Lenin’s Directive of May 1, 1919” was allegedly issued.
By the way, Latyshev forgot a “small” detail - he did not indicate the number, date, or name of this “decision”.

8. There are no “instructions of the Cheka–OGPU–NKVD” with references to this “instruction”; there are no documents about its implementation.

9. There was no publication in Pravda.

10. On November 11, 1939, there really were decisions of the Politburo. However, they did not concern church issues.

As you can see, it is a pure fake.

Who needed it?

Judge for yourself:

Extract from the budget of Yeltsin's election headquarters, 1996 (See Kompramat.ru):

"...The book “Declassified Lenin”. 95 million rubles. Approved. Paid."

Literature:
1. A. Latyshev “ON THE DECLASSIFICATION OF LENIN’S WORKS. To the 132nd anniversary of his birth” (www.lindex.lenin.ru/Est/3060/79.htm)
2. A. Latyshev “Russians are “shits” (Lenin)” (http://www.rususa.com/news/news.asp-nid-1073-catid-5)
3. I. Kurlyandsky “On the history of Stalin’s imaginary turn to religion and the Orthodox Church in the 1930s,” Political Journal No. 32 (175)
4. Newspaper "Pravda" for November 1939

The most important source of this information: the book “Declassified Lenin”, published in 1995, circulation of 95 million copies. This was done as part of a program to “debunk Soviet power.” Those. in fact, the anti-communist government, at its own expense, published ideological films and books that were supposed to “discourage” love for the USSR from the population.

Another very important factor is that Patriarch Kirill, as part of the “Russia’s Choice” program, used the mention of this decree to discredit Lenin. Also, I must say, a great authority in matters of history.

It is clear that lesser priests also actively quote this “instruction.” Sometimes they are echoed on popular TV shows or tabloids.

You can look at the decree in the photo, but here is its transcript:

Chairman of the Cheka Comrade. Dzerzhinsky F.E.

NOTE

You can't say anything - it's a terrible document. It makes your hair stand on end and smells of sulfur...

However, having coped with the first attack of fear, we notice that:

1) During the entire period of their activity, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars did not issue a single document with the title “Instruction”, only resolutions and decrees signed by the heads of these bodies. Anyone can verify this personally by looking at the collections “Decrees of the Soviet Power”. Moreover, in the practice of Soviet party and state office work, there never existed documents with the title “Instruction”.

2) On May 1, 1919, M.I. Kalinin was physically unable to sign any “Instruction”, since he was making a trip to the Eastern Front at that time.

3) No serial numbers were assigned to such documents. However, serial number 13666/2 implies the presence of many thousands of such “instructions” in government records. Where are they?

4) “Lenin’s instruction of May 1, 1919” is absent from RGASPI, although all documents today (except for his medical history) have been declassified.

5) Missing “Lenin’s Directive of May 1, 1919” and in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, where the funds of the Council of People's Commissars and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee are stored.

6) Among Lenin’s papers dating back to May 1, 1919, there are no anti-religious ones - only a few resolutions of the Small Council of People’s Commissars signed by him, and all of them relate to minor economic issues.

7) There were fewer priests than nobles. And if it really was necessary to shoot them all mercilessly, then they would be able to implement this in practice. However, there were priests, there were open churches and even theological seminaries, and religious processions were organized. By law, they even had the right to study religion at their own expense. The only “persecution” is the end of funding from the state.

8) The Central Archive of the FSB of Russia and the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation gave a negative review of the presence of this “document” in their official letters.

9) There was no secret “decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of 1917–1919. about the need to “put an end to priests and religion as quickly as possible,” in pursuance of which “Lenin’s Directive of May 1, 1919” as if it had been released. By the way, Latyshev forgot a “small” detail - he did not indicate the number, date, or name of this “decision”.

10) There are no “instructions of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD” with references to this “instruction”, there are no documents about its implementation.

11) There was no publication in Pravda.

12) On November 11, 1939, there really were decisions of the Politburo. However, they did not concern church issues.

And here is another historical fact, which is also quite displeasing to modern priests:

Transbaikal Bishop Efim, arrested by the Transbaikal Council for anti-Soviet activities and transferred to the Petrograd Cheka, was released on his word of honor to stop anti-Soviet activities, which he, of course, soon violated. Moscow Bishop Nikandr and some other Moscow priests, who were arrested for counter-revolutionary activities, were released in the spring of 1918. The arrest of Patriarch Tikhon was also short-lived. And there are many such examples.

In response to such a soft attitude towards themselves, the priests responded with anger and violence. In Syzran, a crowd, incited by priests, burst into an orphanage, where they began to examine the children to see if they had crosses, after which they beat to death six children who did not have crosses. In the Yakovlevsky monastery of the Penza province, nuns killed a young employee of the Cheka, Pasha Putilina. In the Raifa desert (in one of the Kazan monasteries), the monks burned alive seven representatives of the workers' council. In Soligalich, the priests shot the chairman of the local Council, Viluzgin, and tore his body into pieces. As a result of the pogroms organized by the priests, already in the winter of 1918-1919, 138 communists were killed.