Citizens, your attention, please!
Instructed by our government and our party,
on the initiative of our beloved guide, Comrade Stalin,
we are now beginning the construction of the greatest canal in the world,
connecting the Moskva River to the Volga.
Citizens, you came here as criminals.
But we welcome you as people
taking part in this most important government project.
Through honest work and an honest attitude toward your work,
you will regain the right to rejoin the family of workers.
The Trotskyists and Bukharinists, comrade judges,
this so-called Trotskyist right-wing bloc
whose leaders are here among the accused,
are not a political party.
They're not a political movement. They're a group of criminals.
And not just common criminals,
but criminals who sold themselves to enemy intelligence services.
Criminals who are considered under common law to be lowest of the low,
the most contemtible, the worst of the worst.
Comrades! The Trotskyists and Zinovievists,
who are the direct enemies of the working class and the workers,
have now banded together
to ally with the fascists,
with all the vermin that act
against the first Soviet State,
where work and the working class rule,
along with all the workers of our Soviet Union.
I think, comrades, that I speak in the name of everyone here,
and of the proletariat in our country as a whole,
when I say that these swine must be shot.
No mercy for the enemies!
We must shoot them all, no exceptions, like rabid dogs!
Death to the traitors of the motherland!
To lead the NKVD, the Party has chosen
its loyal son, a friend and brother-in-arms of Comrade Stalin
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov.