617. TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO THE PODOLSK UYEZD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, MOSCOW GUBERNIA

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 391

22. VI. 1920

Having once again considered my decision in regard to Comrade Vever^[1] following his further explanations, I inform you that my decision stands and has to be fulfilled.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

Notes

[1] On June 14, 1920, Lenin imposed a penalty on E. Y. Vever, Manager of the Gorki Sanatorium—a month’s arrest—for cutting down a perfectly sound spruce in the sanatorium park. The Podolsk Uyezd Executive Committee was charged with the carrying out of this sentence (see Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 41, p. 151).