16. I. 1919

Kursk
To the Gubernia Executive Committee
Copy*

Release Kogan, for whom serious Party members now vouch, and evasion
of investigation is excluded**. Continue the investigation, report its results.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

* The second address was apparently not completed by V. I. Lenin. Ed.

** This probably refers to a petition from the communist faction of the Central Purchasing Bureau
under the People's Commissariat for Food of the RSFSR. Ed.

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First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXIV

Printed from the manuscript