Sentence on the Death Penalty for Y. Abdrakhmanov

Analysis of Documents from 1937-38 from Today's Perspective

The analysis of documents from today's perspective convinces us that Yu. Abdrakhmanov is one of many political and state figures devoted to socialism, who grew up in the early post-revolutionary years.

Mastering Leninism, participating in the practical implementation of Lenin's course during the NEP and Lenin's national policy, overcoming the burden of national narrow-mindedness, he developed into a significant personality with his own thinking, with an acute sense of responsibility for the fate of socialism, acquiring not a superficial, but a deeply felt loyalty to Leninism and its essence.

He was transferred from Orenburg to Frunze. From the NKVD prison of the Kyrgyz SSR, on October 27, he addressed a statement to the Prosecutor of the USSR Vyshinsky and the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Yezhov. We will present this document in full. It requires no commentary. This is the last testimony of his party honesty and high moral purity, the last effort in the struggle against the lawlessness that was happening.

“On April 4, 1937, I was arrested by the Orenburg NKVD and was accused of allegedly being a member of a counter-revolutionary Trotskyist organization. The investigator who interrogated me, comrade Zelpkman N. P., applying special measures of influence and bringing me to a state of near insanity, forced me to sign the so-called interrogation protocols, composed by him without any actual interrogation. In these protocols, I am presented as a Trotskyist, recruited by Evdokimov and Bakayev, as an organizer of nationalist counter-revolutionary organizations in Kyrgyzstan and a participant in counter-revolutionary organizations in Kuibyshev and Orenburg. All of this is a lie; I was not a member of any counter-revolutionary organizations.

Moreover, in these protocols, many individuals are mentioned whom I supposedly knew as participants in counter-revolutionary organizations, while, in fact, I do not know many of these individuals at all and heard about them for the first time from Zelpkman. In light of the above, I refuse to acknowledge my signatures on the interrogation protocols composed by the Orenburg NKVD and request that, if there is a trial against the individuals mentioned in the interrogation protocols with my signatures, my signature should not be considered as evidence of their guilt. Furthermore, I request to review my own handwritten statement from April of this year addressed to the head of the UNKVD for the Orenburg region, where I outlined everything that I considered counter-revolutionary in my work and for which I am ready to bear any responsibility.

Arrested Abdrakhmanov Yusup (former chairman of the SNK of Kyrgyzstan).”

He received no response, which he evidently did not expect after the one-sided correspondence with the "master" of these executioners. The response came in the form of an indictment presented on November 4, 1938, on behalf of the military panel of the Supreme Court of the USSR, accusing him of belonging to an anti-Soviet terrorist sabotage and treason organization that existed in conjunction with the right-Trotskyist organization "Social-Turanian Party," which aimed to overthrow Soviet power, detach Kyrgyzstan from the USSR, and create a bourgeois-nationalist state oriented towards England. He was also incriminated for connections with the leadership of the pan-Turkist center (since 1923) T. Ryskulov, F. Khojaev, Asfendiary, Khodjanov, who allegedly introduced him into the leadership concerning Kyrgyzstan. That same year, he was supposedly recruited by an English resident for espionage activities and, in turn, recruited O. Aliyev, Kh. Shorukov, Kangeldieva, B. Isakiev, Chonbashev, and others.

On November 6, 1938, the sentence of the highest measure of punishment was carried out.

Twenty years passed, and in 1958, by the ruling of the military panel of the Supreme Court of the USSR, Yu. Abdrakhmanov was fully rehabilitated in a judicial sense, and heavy political charges against him were lifted.

Another thirty years passed, and in January 1989, the bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, considering that Yu. Abdrakhmanov was unjustly expelled from the ranks of the CPSU in 1933, that his disagreement on certain issues with the then-party line did not constitute a manifestation of anti-party behavior, but reflected the resistance of healthy forces in the party to the distortions of Lenin's plan for socialist construction, rehabilitated him in a party sense.

Exclusion from the Party and Arrest of Yu. Abdrakhmanov