To the Council of People's Commissars

On the question of whether private associations are subject to the control of the People's Commissariat of Workers' and Peasants' Inspection, a negative answer should be given on the basis of the following considerations:
Is this correct??

Wrong! private
= Soviet [institutions], leased out.

1. The new Regulations on the People's Commissariat of RKI in article 3, section "a" states: "to establish in all without exception central and local Soviet organs, as well as public organizations, with the exception of cases indicated in the law, permanent and actual control of material and monetary transactions."

Consequently, private organizations and persons are not subject to such control in their material and monetary transactions...
here's where the heart of it is!
???

4. Considering all the legislative material, one should arrive at the following conclusions: Soviet institutions and officials are subject to control by the People's Commissariat of RKI; public (cooperative) organizations are regulated in this respect extremely contradictorily: from simple silence (consumer cooperatives), from control according to the rules of a special statute, which amounts to the absence of a general norm (credit cooperatives), from the admission of only subsequent control and prohibition of preliminary control (agricultural cooperatives) to, finally, complete prohibition of any control whatsoever (handicraft cooperatives).

But what about the basic Regulations on RaKrin?

Is this
Koblents lying?

I am convinced that he is lying!

5. Concerning private persons and organizations, the law contains no direct indications, but from all the aforementioned legislative material one should draw the conclusion that they are completely free from any control whatsoever (preliminary and subsequent) by the People's Commissariat of RKI just as handicraft cooperatives are.

* See present volume, document 270. Ed.

Written February 15, 1922

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript