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First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1975,
Moscow,
Volume 44,
pages 200c-201a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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8. III. 1919
Myshkin, Chairman of the Gubernia Extraordinary
Commission
Tsaritsyn
You cannot arrest people for disfiguring a portrait. Free Valentina Pershikova at once, and if she is a counter– revolutionary, keep an eye on her.[1]
Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
[1] Valentina Pershikova, a member of the staff of the Tsaritsyn Housing Department, was arrested for daubing a portrait of Lenin which she had torn out of a pamphlet. Requests for Pershikova’s release were sent in telegrams to Lenin from V. S. Usachov, chief of one of the Tsaritsyn militia stations, and from Minin, a Red Army man. On Minin’s telegram Lenin wrote the following instruction to his secretary: “Remind me when the reply comes from the Chairman of the Extraordinary Commission (and afterwards hand all the material over to the topical satirists).” (Lenin Miscellany XXIV, p. 172.)
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