I request that the question of expelling from the Party those of its members who, as judges in the case (2.V.1918) of bribe-takers, with the bribe proven and admitted by them, restricted themselves to a sentence of 1/2 year’s imprisonment, be placed on the order of the day.

Instead of shooting the bribe-takers, to pass such mockingly weak and lenient sentences is a disgraceful act for a communist and revolutionary. Such comrades must be prosecuted by the court of public opinion and expelled from the Party, for their place is alongside the Kerenskys or Martovs, and not alongside communist revolutionaries.

4.V.1918.