Comrade Molotov! I wrote you about the necessity of punishing Badaev (he sabotaged a decision of the Council of Labor and Defense; the Moscow comrades carried it out)*. You did not reply.

Such matters must be resolved quickly.

Kamenev and Zinoviev agree. Write a protocol of a Politburo decision for passage through the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee: "For non-execution of a decision of the Council of Labor and Defense (on reduction of rations by 30%) — which was executed by the Moscow comrades — subject comrade Badaeva to arrest for 1 week + 2 of her closest assistants".

Then there will be "control"!!

Lenin

Written no earlier than July 29, 1921

Published for the first time, from the manuscript