Comrade Kursky!

I request that you send me, at the earliest possible moment, an official memorandum concerning what rights the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate possess under current legislation with regard to the inspection of private (non-state) enterprises.

I recall that there has been repeated discussion of the necessity to place no restrictions whatsoever on the rights of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate in relation to any enterprises whatsoever that do not fall into the category of state enterprises.279

Lenin

Dictated by telephone copies

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

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