V. I.

Lenin

Remarks on the Draft Decree on Measures for Proper Distribution of Housing Among the Working Population [1]

In my opinion § 9 is unsuitable. People’s Courts are weak.

The local sanitary departments (+labour commissariat) should be made:

(a) to issue obligatory rules (b) to punish , without trial, by arrest up to 1 month and
compulsory labour up to 2 months for uncleanliness, etc.

(c) to organize mass control of cleanliness (through special squads of Soviet Deputies.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The text of the decree, amended in accordance with Lenin’s remarks, was
adopted at the meeting of the C.P.C. on May 25, 1920 and published in
Izvestia on June 4, 1920