Letter to Vyacheslav Molotov, July, not before the 29th, 1921

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Comrade Molotov:

I wrote you about the need to punish Badayev (for frustrating the CLD decision; fulfilled by the Muscovites).[1] You have not replied.

Such things must he settled speedily.

Kamenev and Zinoviev agree. Write the minutes of the Politbureau decision for the passage through the Presidium of the All-Russia CEC: “For failure to fulfil a CLD decision (on reducing rations by 30 per cent)—which the Muscovites have carried out—Comrade Badayev + two of his closest assistants shall be placed under detention for one Sunday.”

That will give us “control”!!

Lenin

  1. See V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Edition, Vol. 53, Document 94.—Ed.