[1920]

Immediately release the arrested person.
Provide an explanation by telegraph regarding the reasons
for the arrest, and then send all materials concerning this case to the Central Committee
in writing.
To the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Comrade Lenin,
Moscow. Urgent.
The Chairman of the
Volkhov Uyezd Party Committee, Simakov, married in church to the daughter
of a hostage-capitalist. I proposed to the general meeting of
communists of the
Volkhov organisation, for undermining party principles,
the expulsion of Chairman Simakov from the party. The proposal was accepted,
and Simakov was expelled from the Communist Party.
Some members of the Communist Party held their own opinion and summoned the authorised representative from the Oryol
Gubernia Committee, Comrade Pakun. The resolution of the meeting was annulled. For introducing my proposal, I was arrested
a few days later and am in prison.
I request your assistance.
Head of Uyezd Department of Public Education Zalygin

Lenin Miscellany XXXVI