657. MEMO TO D. I. KURSKY AND ASSIGNMENT TO N. P. GORBUNOV

Written on February 28, 1922 · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original. · page 491

Comrade Kursky:

Prepare its draft together with the State Political Administration.^[1]

28/II. Lenin

The legislating must be done with triple circumspection. Look before you leap! I very much doubt concerning Yakhontov. Make a personal check twice, three times and many more times.

Lenin

Comrade Gorbunov:

Have a copy made of my note and send it on to Kursky.

Lenin

Notes

[1] A reference to the draft directive of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee on the working out of a draft All-Russia C.E.C. decision on the People’s Commissariat for Workers’ and Peasants’ inspection. See this volume, Document 629.