V. I.

Lenin

442

To:   N. A. UGLANOV

15/X.

Comrade Uglanov:

I am sending this to you and Komarov secretly .

Bear in mind that this has been decided before the arrival of the commission of Kamenev + Orjonikidze +
Zalutsky and independently of them. The Petrograd Gubernia
Cheka is no use, it is not up to the mark, it is not clever.
We have to find better men. [1]

With communist greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Written on an extract from the minutes of the Politbureau of the
R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee of October 14, 1921, on the
Petrograd Gubernia Cheka. Having heard I. S. Unschlicht’s report
about the unsatisfactory composition of the Petrograd Gubernia
Cheka, the Politbureau decided: “To authorise Comrade
Unschlicht, together with the Orgbureau, to submit for approval
to the Politbureau, within three clays, a list of candidates for
heads of the Petrograd Cheka” (Central Party Archives of the
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central
Committee).

About the Kamenev, Orjonikidze and Zalutsky commission see