To the Small Council
I am very afraid that under the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) this will be a bureaucratic institution
that does not enjoy the trust of the population. Why not try
to take the same money and the same forces that the NKVD has
and transfer them to the People's Commissariat of Transport (NKPtel), where it would be a **publicly accessible reference institution**?
It is fundamentally incorrect in the NKVD. It is fundamentally necessary in the NKPtel.
I ask you to reconsider, and in case of disagreement, submit it to the large Council of People's Commissars ².
June 11 [1921]
Lenin