V. I. Lenin

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

A. S. YENUKIDZE 445

25/VI.

Comrade Yenukidze!

Thank you for your letter.446

I am sending you a copy of the protocol decision of the investigator for the most important cases attached to the People’s Commissariat of Justice, Comrade Torkhovsky, dated 31/V.

Since you have stopped this case, having formally assumed full responsibility for the (outrageous!) red tape displayed by Comrade Platonov, I shall not raise this matter again. Would you agree to give Platonov a written reprimand, with a warning that if anything of the kind recurs, you will no longer defend him and he will incur very severe punishment, up to and including deprivation of the right to hold Soviet posts for several years.

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

Please return the protocol decision of Investigator Torkhovsky.

Yours, Lenin

Written on June 25, 1921

First published in 1959
in the Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript