The proletarian vigilance.

On October 11, 1922, at 5 o’clock in the evening, a healthy drunk buggy walked through the Factory Street of the city of Samara (now Venetska). On the column near the house #74 the monter Erofeev set up a telephone network. Buggy stumbled at the toolbox, pulled the monter from the pillar and started to beat him. One of the passers whispered “Our officers are beating!” He went to the earnings of Erofeev. Bugay threw him away, but the help was already coming from the doorsteps: "Beat the officer!“”

Buga was struck by the crowd, bound and dragged to the 1st division of the militia: "The officer was caught." The drunk bug was a servant of the Gubvoenkomat and a member of the party comrade I.A. of Antonov. The citizens who brought him themselves were bullshit, except for the injured Yerofeev. The police detained everyone “until clarification”.

Antonov first shuddered and asked him to let go. Well, what: a respected man, his offence for Samara is not out of the line, you can also let go with a message at the workplace - let the partisanship deal with him there. But here all the other detainees stumbled, bringing through the mattress the strong arguments that Antonov was a self-proclaimed and an "officer".

The police informed the GPU. The Chekists came, looked at Antonov’s ticket and took it with them. The other detainees were asked to be released, prior to giving them the agenda.

The next day, the entire party of the Gubvoenkomat and the hubvoenkom was taken to the interrogation in the Samara OGPU. I.A Antonov turned out to be indeed a former Denikin officer, the ticket was fake, the primary partisanship mentioned in it never existed.

What are the arguments of the vigilant citizens? Antonov first gave Erofeev a bark and only then began to beat him.

I would have dropped my fist in the roof - I would have walked in freedom.

According to the materials of the Samara "Communy" dated October 14, 1922 #1150.