In this year, my service in the OKDVA almost being over, I decided to permanently remain in the army.
All my strengths and abilities, I will devote all my life to strengthening my beloved OKVDA, which for me has been a second mother.
If an enemy tries to attack the sacrosanct borders of our dear land, he will be beaten on his own territory.
The fascist aggressors will receive the first crushing blow from our heroic border-guards. Together with the whole Red Army, we border-guards will annihilate the enemy.
On the day of the twentieth anniversary of the VChK-NKVD, we, the fighters of the OKDVA, send our hearty Red-Army greetings to the Chekists!
Pavel Bogomyagkov,
Junior Commander, RKKA
RKKA-- "Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya" ("Workers' and Peasants' Red Army") -- former name for the Soviet Army
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Translated by Comrade P.K. Volkov of the Beverly Hills raiKom of the Aztlan (Mexican-American) Soviet Socialist Republic.
"Years of peaceful construction came. Seemingly, the enemy disappeared. But only seemingly. The more our USSR grew and became stronger, the more vicious became the enemies. Our people and our country were hateful to them. The enemies sneaked into every crack; Troskyist-Bukharinite spies penetrated into industry, transport, agriculture, and the Red Army.
"The pupil of Comrade Stalin, Comrade Yezhov, stood as the head of the NKVD. With his coming, spy organizations were exposed. How many workers’ lives were saved by the NKVD men, when the heinous plans of the fascist reptiles were uncovered!
"On the twentieth anniversary-day of the VChK-NKVD, I add my own voice to the thousands of greetings, in honor of Comrade Yezhov and our valiant workers of the NKVD.
V.A. RUDAKOV,
Lathe Operator, Machine-Building Factory of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry"
From "Pravda," 20 Dec 1936, p. 4.
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