Date: 1922-05-10
Source: ru:PSS/v54

This telegram is completely incorrectly directed to the Politburo. Such a matter should be resolved in the Soviet manner. A telegram of this nature should be sent with the signatures of both deputies, the chairman or deputy of the Concessions Committee, and, finally, the head of Glavtop. Only these individuals are responsible and should properly be responsible for the accuracy of the figures indicated here and for the compliance of the instructions given here with Soviet legislation and the regulations of the relevant Soviet institutions. Therefore, I refuse to vote on the substance of this telegram403.

Lenin

Dictated over the telephone on May 6, 1922, at 9 o'clock

First published in 1959 in Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from a typewritten copy

* The date referred to is May 4. Ed.