NOTE TO E. M. SKLYANSKY.
2/U [1919] T. Sklyansky! Please carry out—i.e., instruct someone to carry out—a
verification. It is strange that it is being written by an ANONYMOUS author!
Lenin.
1 The editor of Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yu. M. Steklov, based on a
letter he had received from an anonymous correspondent in Izvestia, reported in a letter to Lenin about the irregularities occurring at the Military Instructor Courses.
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NOTE TO V. I. PODBELSKYPodbel’skiy.
[May 3, 1919]
Greetings telegrams are PROHIBITED¹.
1 A group of workers and employees from the Kirsk Forest Operations along the Moscow–Kazan Railway sent Lenin a congratulatory
telegram on May 3, 1919, in connection with May Day. Lenin wrote the note to Podbel’skiy on the official stationery of the telegram he had received.
3AI1IICKA IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL BUREAU OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The Organizational Bureau of the C.C.
30/V [1919]
I am in favor of expelling from the Party those who take part in religious rites.
Lenin.

V A R I A.

1 In a letter titled “A Tribute to Prejudice,” addressed to the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee, B. Yaroslavsky asked the members of the Bureau whether it might be possible
to allow communists who held religious prejudices to remain in the Party.