The report of the police chief of the Rock post of the Mountain-Ossetian district Chabiev Mate to the Gori district commissar regarding the Bolsheviks' armed uprising in the village of Ruck under the leadership of A. Dzhatiev.
In addition to my report of October 30, of this year for. No. 109 and in response to your telephone message of November 1 of this year for No. 3383 I inform you about the armed uprising of the Bolsheviks in the villages of Rocka against the authorities in the district:
October 24th d. I, with part of my policemen, went on official business from the village of Ruck ... to the village of Vaneli. At about 10 a.m. on October 25 in the village of Vaneli a group of young people came down from the Upper Koshka. On their hands there were red armbands, which, according to my information, they received in the house of a resident of the village of Koshka. Some of the youths had overcoats over their shoulders, like soldiers in marching uniforms. A certain Toto separated from the group and offered me to hand over the weapon “without scandal.” When I asked him with amazement about the reasons for his proposal, he told me that on October 25 in all major cities of Transcaucasia the overthrow of power and its seizure by the Bolsheviks would take place, that Gagloev, who arrived with this news from the plane and who urged residents to oppose the authorities in the district, that my post was probably already disarmed in Roka, etc. I said that I could only hand over the weapon by order of my direct commander and I would not hand it over to anyone else alive.” At that time, the most restless South Ossetian Bolshevik Alexander Dzhatiev arrived from Ruck, who drove up to the group mentioned above with his squire Abaev in blue glasses, and both began to survey their front and held a speech in such a spirit that the great hour had come for the overthrow of the power of the Georgian Mensheviks, that he, the head of the front of South Ossetia, was going further to the main front, and that they should wait for orders. Seeing all this, I hurried to the other part of my policemen in the village of Ruck. I did not find the policemen at the post: they were taken prisoner to the village of Zgubiri. I hurried there and found them locked in a postal house. A guard was assigned to them. They told the following circumstances of their arrest: on the night of October 24, some gang suddenly burst into their post in Rocka. Since they were in large numbers, they managed to disarm the policemen. Rifles and ammunition were taken away, and the policemen themselves were taken prisoner to the village of Zgubiri. Dzhatiev, who played the role of front-line commander, took the horse and cartridges of one of the policemen and rode out onto the plane. Later it turned out that earlier, a young man, a former high schoolboy Gagloev, had arrived from the village of Koshka and brought some secret package. The gang, which attacked the policemen, had an order from Dzhatiev to arrest me and keep me in the stable until his special order. But when I set the police free, I went through the villages to find out the occurrence of attacks on the authorities in the district. I explained that Denikin was reigning over the pass, waging a war with the Bolsheviks, on the other hand, the Georgian government does not tolerate them, and that therefore the best thing for South Ossetians is not to let Bolshevism come to them.
Mate Chabiev
November 1919 22.
TsGAOOR and SS Cargo. SSR, f. 11, d. 31 1 l. l 177, 178. The copy.
From the book "The struggle of the working people of South Ossetia for Soviet power" (1917-1921). Documents and materials. Compiled by I.N. Tskhovrebov.
