I protest decisively against the delay in printing the "Decree of the Council of Labor and Defense" at the VChK print shop.

Ring up Belenky and tell him that I am angry.

Demand from Centroprinting the swift distribution of this Decree, otherwise I will have them jailed.

Lenin

23/VII.

Written July 23, 1921

First published in 1932 in Lenin Collection XX

Printed from the manuscript