V. I. Lenin

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

4. VI. 1919

Comrade Latsis

Dear Comrade, I have received your letter and enclosures. Kamenev says—and declares that several prominent Chekists confirm—that in the Ukraine the Cheka
have done a great deal of harm, having been set up too soon and having allowed a lot of hangers-on to get in.

The membership must be more strictly checked—I hope Dzerzhinsky will help you in this from here. The Chekists must be pulled up at all costs and the hangers-on turned out.

At a convenient opportunity let me have more detailed information about the purge of the Cheka membership in the Ukraine and the results of its work.

Greetings! Yours, Lenin