TO THE KOTELNICH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

17 August 1918

Kotelnich, Executive Committee

Copy: Vyatka, Executive Committee

I have received a complaint from Lublina that her husband, Lublin, was beaten by Nikitin, chairman of the Extraordinary Commission, and that Lublin is being kept in prison needlessly.

I order you to demand immediately an explanation from Nikitin and to telegraph it to me, as well as the opinion of the Vyatka Gubernia Executive Committee as to whether it is possible to release Lublin if he is not a counter-revolutionary.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
Lenin

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First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI.

Printed from the manuscript.