V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50; en:CW/CW44;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

December 3, 1918

Copy to Chairman
of the Petrograd Cheka
Comrade Zinoviev:

Comrade Karl Moor, a Swiss, has sent me a long letter asking that Palchinsky be released, because he is supposedly a major technical and organisational force, the author of many works, etc. I have heard and read about Palchinsky as a speculator, etc., in the time of Kerensky.

But I do not know whether there is any evidence now against Palchinsky. What evidence? Is it serious? Why has the amnesty law not been applied to him? 223
If he is a scholar, a writer, could he not—if there is serious evidence against him—be granted especially favourable conditions (for example, house arrest, a laboratory, etc.)?

I ask you to reply to me in writing and immediately.

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)