V. I.

Lenin

499

ON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE PARTY AND THE JUDICIAL AND INVESTIGATION ORGANS [1]

NOTES TO V. M. MOLOTOV

1

Comrade Molotov:

What is the state of this matter?

I think §§  4 and 5 are harmful .

Please, return this to me with a comment in a couple of words.

Lenin

14/XI.

| Written on November 14, 1921 | |

2

19.XI.1921

Comrade Molotov:

I am taking the matter on to the Politbureau.

It is altogether wrong to decide such matters in the
Orgbureau: this is a purely political, an entirely political
question.

And it calls for a different solution.

Please have the secretary type out the old and the new version on one page.

(1) I think § 4 should be deleted.

(2) — the legal responsibility of Communists should be enhanced.

(3) the Party Committee’s “opinions” should be allowed only with dispatch to the centre and verification by the Central Control Commission .

Lenin

| First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI | |
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