...up to now point 282 has not been carried out. The question has not even been heard yet and has not been on the agenda.

I propose to immediately convene an emergency session of the Small Council of People's Commissars, to summon the interested departments with an ultimatum, and to decide the question. Departments that have not submitted their conclusions are to be punished and this announced in the press.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

to the text signed by

V. I. Lenin

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Written on October 4, 1921

First published on February 14,

1924, in the newspaper *Pravda* No. 36

Printed from the typewritten copy