Rather than accept the result, Stalin abolished it. Meetings were called; expert panels were created. A special Central Committee resolution declared the census badly organized, unprofessional, and a “gross violation of the basic fundamentals of statistical science.”22 The journal Bolshevik declared that the census had been “disrupted by contemptible enemies of the people—Trotsky-Bukharinite spies and traitors to the motherland, having slipped at that time into the leadership of the Central Directory of People’s Economic Accounting…Enemies of the people set themselves the goal of distorting
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