Date: 1917
Source: ru:PSS/v51

# TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGIA OF NARKOMPROD AND CENTROSOYUZ

Source: PSS vol 51

The property of the Koporye railway construction is being destroyed, seized, and plundered by road and bridge battalions and volost revolutionary committees without even notifying the administration of this construction. I propose to immediately stop this self-will under the threat of the severest responsibility, return what has been taken, and compensate for what has been plundered and lost. In the future, under no circumstances should there be any unauthorized disposal of the property of other departments without prior agreement with them. Those responsible for non-compliance will be subject to the severest responsibility. Report on the execution*.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

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Written in January, not earlier than the 23rd, First published in 1942 in the Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed from a typescript supplemented and signed by V. I. Lenin