OF THE GOMEL PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Gomel
To the Provincial Executive Committee Chairman

If Rabkin's bicycle was taken for the duration of the uprising, why was it not returned
afterwards? I warn that for a mere written reply without achieving practical results and without
correcting the error, I will hold [those responsible] liable to account 376.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

Written May 20, 1919

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript