Aron Sol'ts: It seems to me that the draft suggested by the Commissariat of Justice is only a formal “step forward.” It has nothing in common with the real steps forward we must take in the areas of culture, life, and development.

Nikolai Krylenko: So, Comrade Sol'ts wants what we now already have. All these countless babi with children, wives suing communists, and communists running from their wives … in one word, all those who protest to him about the current situation. Are they really protesting against the draft? What does Comrade Sol'ts want to change? The draft, which is not yet in effect, or the current law?

Sol'ts: The draft and the current law!

Krylenko: How do you want to change it? Tell us, Comrade Sol'ts, do you want to provide a legal basis for only the first marriage, to establish the right to enter marriage only once? Is that what you want? Is this so, or not so?

Sol'ts: Not so.

Krylenko: No, it is so. If we are to call ourselves Marxists, we must affirm that we cannot struggle with a definite phenomenon of life by punitive norms.

Sol'ts: I didn't suggest this.

Krylenko: Then tell us concretely, what are you suggesting?