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The Eremin letter was a letter supposedly written by [[Colonel Eremin]], an high ranking member of the [[Okhrana]], the secret police of the [[Russian Empire]]. It said that Joseph Stalin was an Okhrana agent that infiltrated the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party|RSDRP]] and was providing information to the Tsar's police.<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> It also said that when Stalin was elected to the Central committee of the Bolshevik party in 1910, he completely ceased to cooperate with the Okhrana.<ref name=":1"></ref> The claim that Stalin worked for the Okhrana has been made multiple times, but the Eremin letter is the only document that corroborates it.<ref name=":0" /> Professor [[Yuri Khechinov]] was the scholar who found the letter.<ref name=":1" />
== Authenticity ==
The predominant view of historians in the west and in the countries of the former Soviet Union, is that the letter is most likely a forgery.<ref name=":0" /> [[Stephen Kotkin]], an acclaimed biographer of Stalin, said that it was normal for the Okhrana to cast doubts over genuine revolutionaries, by saying they were police agents. Both [[Leon Trotsky]] and Stalin came under suspicion of police collaboration, those rumours always followed Stalin, but they were accusations his enemies failed to prove.<ref name=":2">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> One former Okhrana chief boasted, triumphant, that the revolutionaries started to suspect each other, so that in the end none of them could trust each other.<ref name=":2" />
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== Authenticity ==
The predominant view of historians in the west and in the countries of the former Soviet Union, is that the letter is most likely a forgery.<ref name=":0" /> [[Stephen Kotkin]], an acclaimed biographer of Stalin, said that it was normal for the Okhrana to cast doubts over genuine revolutionaries, by saying they were police agents. Both [[Leon Trotsky]] and Stalin came under suspicion of police collaboration, those rumours always followed Stalin, but they were accusations his enemies failed to prove.<ref name=":2">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> One former Okhrana chief boasted, triumphant, that the revolutionaries started to suspect each other, so that in the end none of them could trust each other.<ref name=":2" />
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