V. I.

Lenin

To Comrade Molotov for the Politbureau

In view of the utter inadequacy (or reticence?) of the report in Pravda on 3.1.1922 concerning the suicide of
Oldenborger and the investigations into this case

I propose the following decision for the Politbureau:

1) that the Moscow Soviet be asked to apply to the Presidium of the
All-Russia Central Executive Committee in order to have all those persons
mentioned in the commission’s findings brought to trial ;

2) that the Presidium of the A.C.E.C. be asked to grant this request
immediately and

3) — to give this wide publicity in the whole Soviet press;

4) that the People’s Commissariat for Justice be directed (under the
personal responsibility of Comrade Kursky and an appointed public
prosecutor) to handle this case skilfully, impressively and with special
care;

5) that the Orgbureau be directed to set up a special Party Court to
try the whole communist group of the Water- works. (Some to be
expelled from the Party for good or for a time, some to be severely
reprimanded, depending on the measure of their guilt.) The trial to be held
in an impressive public manner.

+ 6) that Izvestia and Pravda be instructed to
highlight this outrageous affair in a number of strong articles.

4.1.1922

Lenin

Another draft resolution:

All cases of the murder of engineers (and specialists) at Soviet
enterprises shall be reported to the Politbureau together with the results
of the investigations ((the Supreme Economic Council, the A.C.C.T.U., etc.,
through the

C.L.D.)). [1]

P.S. This is scandalous: we should ring the tocsin.