To be transmitted to all commissariats of the city and suburbs within a radius of 50 versts: permit passage, in addition to the automobiles of the people’s commissars, also to the automobiles of combat detachments.

Detain all automobiles of the Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, arrest all Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, members of this commission, especially Zaks and Aleksandrovich. Those of dubious party affiliation to be brought to the Kremlin for clarification.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
Lenin

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Written in July 1918.

First published in 1942
in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the typescript.