Rostov-on-Don. To the VChK Representative Rusanov for urgent transmission to Comrade Fomin. Decrypt personally.

From Moscow, VChK

In the Central Committee they have decided to appoint Comrade Dzerzhinsky as People's Commissar of Ways of Communication, Emshhanov as first deputy, yourself as second deputy. To introduce Kolegaev into the collegium and someone else from the center. I request that you
send me your assessment in cipher, your considerations, in particular regarding what kind of specialist could be suitable as a replacement in case of need 206.

10/IV. 1921. Lenin copies

First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX

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