Comrade Enukidze!

Thank you for your letter 446.

I am sending you a copy of the protocol resolution of the investigator on the most important cases at the People's Commissariat of Justice, comrade Torkhovsky, dated 31/V.

Since you have stopped this matter, formally assuming full responsibility for the (outrageous!) bureaucratic delay demonstrated by comrade Platonov, I will not raise this matter again. Would you be willing to send Platonov a written reprimand warning him that if anything similar occurs again, you will no longer protect him and he will face very severe punishment, including deprivation of the right to hold Soviet positions for several years.

I very much ask you to send me a copy of your letter to Platonov 447.

The protocol resolution of investigator Torkhovsky, please return.

Your Lenin

First published in 1959

Written 25 June 1921 in Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript