NOTE TO E. M. SKLYANSKY.
2/U [1919] T. Sklyansky! Please carry out—i.e., instruct someone to carry out—an inspection. It’s strange that it’s being written by an ANONYMOUS contributor!
Lenin.
1 The editor of Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yu. M. Steklov, based on an anonymous letter he had received, reported in a letter to Lenin about the irregularities occurring at the military instructor courses.
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NOTE TO V. II. PODBELSKYPodbel’sky.
[May 3, 1919]
Greetings telegrams are PROHIBITED¹.
1 A group of workers and employees from the Kirsk Forest Operations along the Moscow–Kazan Railway sent Lenin a congratulatory telegram on May 3, 1919, in connection with May Day. Lenin wrote the note to Podbel’sky on the official letterhead of the telegram he had received.
3AI1IICKA IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL BUREAU OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL BUREAU OF THE C.C.
30/V [1919]
I am in favor of expelling from the Party those who participate in religious rites.
Lenin.

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1 In a letter titled “Tribute to Prejudices,” addressed to the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee, B. Yaroslavsky asked the bureau members whether it was possible to allow communists who held religious prejudices to remain in the Party.