**TO A. I. RYKOV**

September 17

Comrade Rykov!

In my opinion, it is necessary to

1) convene tomorrow the old Control Commission [of the Communist Party]

Stalin
Trotsky (arriving today)
You

2) confirm the old agreement;

3) repeal all its changes and "corrections";

4) give a thorough beating to Zaks again from the Control Commission.

Otherwise there will be an outrageous scandal with Gorky's departure, and we will be in the wrong, since once already the Commission of Control Commissioners has decided the question.

It cannot be re-decided.

Lenin

Written September 17, 1921. First published.