Nuremberg Exposes Moscow Trials Frame-up

Wellred

Core Argument

The chapter argues that the Nuremberg Trial, far from serving only its intended purpose of prosecuting Nazi war criminals, inadvertently provided the definitive refutation of the Moscow Trials. The core claim is that if the Stalinist charges against Leon Trotsky and the Old Bolsheviks—that they had conspired with the Nazis and the Gestapo against the Soviet Union—had been genuine, the Soviet prosecution at Nuremberg would have been able to produce the relevant evidence from the captured Nazi archives. The chapter notes that tens of thousands of documents were examined, the entire history of the Nazi Party was laid out in detail, and Hitler’s plans for aggression against the Soviet Union were documented, yet not a single word emerged to support the accusations made by Vyshinsky in the Moscow Trials.

The text draws directly on the indictment from the trial of Pyatakov, Radek, and others, which alleged that Trotsky had negotiated an agreement with a Nazi leader and Hitler’s deputy Hess, involving territorial concessions, economic exploitation of the USSR by German industry, and diversionist activities in wartime. The chapter contrasts this with the silence of the Stalinist press and the Soviet prosecution at Nuremberg, arguing that this silence is itself damning evidence of a frame-up. It invokes the findings of the Commission of Enquiry chaired by Dr John Dewey, which had already concluded that the charges could not be substantiated.

The polemic is directed squarely against the Stalinist bureaucracy. The chapter accuses the Soviet regime of using the Moscow Trials as a cover to liquidate the old revolutionary guard and replace them with former White Guards and Mensheviks like Vyshinsky. It cites Trotsky’s own analysis that a new bureaucratic aristocracy had been created, which required the suppression of the truth and the fabrication of charges. The text also challenges the British Communist Party directly, noting its campaign to expose Nazi sympathisers in Britain while remaining silent on the failure to produce evidence against Trotsky at Nuremberg.

The chapter concludes that the Nuremberg Trial has exposed the Stalin-Hitler Pact as the real agreement between the Soviet bureaucracy and the Nazis, not any supposed conspiracy by Trotsky. The refusal to submit the Moscow Trials’ charges to an independent tribunal confirms the Dewey Commission’s verdict: the trials were judicial murders, not acts of justice.