Comrade Stalin, Please spare 15 minutes for Comrade Meranvil, who works in the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate and is known (albeit very little) as a member of the Small Soviet. He was expelled from the party and, according to him, a blatant injustice was committed inasmuch as they refused to question a whole series of witnesses he indicated. Meranvil, much earlier than the purge began, visited me on a certain matter and told me that he had been in a foreign circle long before the revolution. I could not recall this. Undoubtedly, people can be found who are able to verify this fact. Please send the reply to me via Fotiyeve.
Lenin