V. I.   Lenin

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To:   F. E. DZERZHINSKY

Written: Written in October, after 19, 1920
Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 451^a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Urgent

Comrade Dzerzhinsky

Bandits have seized the Boldyrev (Rasskazovo) factories (Tambov Gubernia).

It is an absolute scandal.

I propose that the Chekists (and the Gubernia Executive Committee people) of Tambov Gubernia who were caught off their guard 

1) be court-martialled, 

2) that Kornev be severely reprimanded, 

3) that extremely energetic people be sent there at once, 

4) that a severe trimming and instructions be given by telegraph.

Lenin

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