V. I.

Lenin

156

To:   L. B. KRASIN

You deserve a beating.

1) You are late with the grain order. We are in a pretty
horrible position.

2) You have failed to make use of all the sources
(Sweden, etc., even if only for small quantities).

3) There is no precise information: what can be
obtained nearby , even at a very high price, and in very small
quantities.

Make a special point of putting all this right at the
People’s
Commissariat. [1]

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Notes:
[1]
In reply to this note, L. B. Krasin sent Lenin P. L. Voikov’s
memo on the food which could he quickly purchased abroad for
gold and on credit. Krasin added the following: “There is nothing
in Sweden, Denmark, and Holland. Tsyurupa told me that the
grain would be needed in June . The ‘catastrophic’ nature of the
requirement is usually discovered at the very last moment”
(Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the
C.P.S.U. Central Committee).

Lenin crossed out Krasin’s note, and on May 10, 1921, sent
the document on to N. P. Bryukhanov (for Lenin’s markings
on the memo see Lenin Miscellany XXXVI , p. 234).

On May 10, Voikov drew up the memo on the distribution of
food and consumer goods bought abroad by C.L.D. decision. On
the back of this memo Lenin wrote:

“ Into the file on the purchase of food abroad. (Give me daily
reminders)” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).