Date: 1921-06-05
Source: ru:PSS/v52

5/VI.

Comrade Avanesov! I will not be able to attend the commission tomorrow. Please, when everything is finalized and just before it is submitted to the Presidium of the VTsIK for approval (since it does approve, doesn't it?), send me the text so that I have the opportunity to make my amendments before the VTsIK approves it (the decree of the STO and SNK, — the regulation on the Gubernia Economic Council, etc.).

I also request very strongly: ensure in the Presidium of the VTsIK that the gubernia executive committees are strictly punished (not less than arrest for those in charge of automobiles, etc.; not less than a reprimand for the "guberpresidents"). If the punishment is less, submit a complaint to the Central Committee; I will support you.

Please respond to this with a few words.

With comradely greetings, Lenin

Written on June 5, 1921

First published in 1945 in the Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from the manuscript