Letter to Felix Dzerzhinsky, April 18, 1919

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The instruction to Dzerzhinsky was written by Lenin on the copy of a letter forwarded to him by the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture. The letter was from N. D. Gorelov and P. I. Novikov, representatives of the peasants of Pochep Uyezd, Chernigov Gubernia, who had come to Moscow with a complaint about the abuses practised by the local authorities and had been received by Lenin. They wrote that on their return homo they had been subjected to persecution and even arrested.

Comrade Dzerzhinsky,

Will you please institute a very strict investigation.

Lenin

18/IV.