Date: 1922-03-01
Source: ru:PSS/v54

Source: PSS, Volume 54

Unfortunately, I must decline the invitation due to illness.

With bribery and the like—and so on. The State Political Administration can and must combat such practices, meting out punishment by way of execution following judicial proceedings. The GPU should enter into an agreement with the People’s Commissariat of Justice and, through the Politburo, issue the appropriate directive to both the People’s Commissariat of Justice and all relevant organs.

With comradely greetings, Lenin

Copies

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Written on March 1, 1922.

First published in 1959.

In the Lenin Collection, Volume XXXVI.

Printed from typewritten copy.