174. TELEGRAM TO THE PENZA GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

First published in 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVIII. Printed from the original. · page 143

28. VIII. 1918

Gubernia Executive Committee
Penza
Copy to the Gubernia Communist Organisation

Internal conflicts among Communists are extremely deplorable. It will be a disgrace if they are not done away with. Elect a commission at once to settle the matter in two days, for example, by dividing the uyezds among the most prominent functionaries so as to separate those who are quarrelling. Telegraph the decision of the commission.

Lenin