V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO AVANESOV, KURSKY, TSYURUPA

I suspect a little military stratagem on the part of Osinsky\(^a\) and Bogdanov, who are today, in my absence, introducing the question of repealing the C.L.D. decision concerning the prosecution of persons guilty of red tape in the manufacture of Fowler ploughs. I request you to pay attention to this matter and to exert influence against the repeal of the C.L.D. decision. There is no doubt that those guilty of red tape are in evidence here, and from the point of view of principle it is necessary that such cases should not be kept within the confines of bureaucratic institutions but should be brought before a public court, not so much for the sake of severe punishment (a reprimand may be sufficient) but for the sake of publicity and the destruction of the widespread conviction that the guilty are unpunishable.

Lenin
December 13, 1921