V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO P. F. VINOGRADOV

Vinogradov, Gubernia Executive Committee
Archangel

People’s Commissar Tsyurupa has shown me your telegram to him of 21. IV. No. 1192, in which you refer to an
order of the central Soviet authorities as being absurd.

I officially reprimand you for this and state that if you
do not withdraw such an impermissible expression, I shall
raise the question of your being brought before the court,
for if we are conscientious in teaching discipline to workers and peasants, we are obliged to begin with ourselves.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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