Letter to Nikolai Uglanov, October 15, 1921

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15/X.

Comrade Uglanov:

I am sending this to you and Komarov secretly.

Bear in mind that this has been decided before the arrival of the commission of Kamenev + Orjonikidze + Zalutsky and independently of them. The Petrograd Gubernia Cheka is no use, it is not up to the mark, it is not clever. We have to find better men.[1]

With communist greetings,

Lenin

  1. Written on an extract from the minutes of the Politbureau of the RCP(b) Central Committee of October 14, 1921, on the Petrograd Gubernia Cheka. Having heard I. S. Unschlicht’s report about the unsatisfactory composition of the Petrograd Gubernia Cheka, the Politbureau decided: “To authorise Comrade Unschlicht, together with the Orgbureau, to submit for approval to the Politbureau, within three clays, a list of candidates for heads of the Petrograd Cheka” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee).
    About the Kamenev, Orjonikidze and Zalutsky commission see Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Edition, Vol. 53, Document 361.