V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v18;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

[December 10-11 (November 27-28), 1917]

Comrade Uritsky!
Drop me a line about what’s new with the Constituent Assembly.
Do you know that we have released the arrested persons?
Have measures been taken to prevent them from entering the building?
Will you draw up a statement on their arrest (reasons, significance and usefulness).²

Lenin.

¹ This note to M. S. Uritsky was apparently written at a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars on December 10 or 11 (November 27 or 28), 1917, on the same day, or the day after the release of the arrested members of the All-Russian Electoral Commission for the elections to the Constituent Assembly.
On the back of this note, in an unknown hand, is written: “To Vladimir Ilyich, re point 5,” and in V. I. Lenin’s hand a notation—“to § 5”—not pertaining to this document; hence the assumption that the note was written at a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars.
² No data are available as to whether a statement on the arrest was drawn up.