V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v52; en:MT;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Saratov Gubernia, Serdobsk Uyezd, Bakury Volost
To the Bakury Volost Organisation of the RCP
Copy to the Saratov Gubernia Party Committee and Gubernia Executive Committee

Dear Comrades,

The secretary of your organisation, Comrade Turunen, has conveyed to me in writing that you, at the request of the peasants, have resolved through him to bring to my attention the counter-revolutionary actions in your volost of certain food-supply workers, who perpetrate outrages against the poor, rob for personal gain, encourage moonshine distilling, get drunk, rape women, provoke Soviet power, etc. You request that these counter-revolutionary actions be eliminated from here in Moscow. But fighting counter-revolution with all your forces locally is one of the most important tasks of local party organisations, including yours. It is your duty and obligation to secure, through communication with the uyezd party committee, and if that does not help, with the gubernia party committee, the arrest and handing over to the Revolutionary Tribunal of such counter-revolutionaries and scoundrels as those you report.

What have you done in this direction?

In the second part of his letter, Comrade Turunen sets forth your considerations that Soviet power, in order to emerge from economic ruin, must for some time rely on the peasantry as on a crutch. This is absolutely correct. This is stated in our party programme and in the resolutions of party congresses. At the recent Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets, the question of raising agriculture was examined in great detail and thoroughly, and the congress adopted important practical resolutions which you locally will need to implement under the guidance of the gubernia bodies.

These resolutions were published in the newspapers. In addition, Comrade Turunen will bring you some supplementary materials which he will receive at the People's Commissariat for Agriculture, to which he was sent by me.

With communist greetings.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)