NOTE TO A. D. TSYURUPA  
July 1918  
Comrade Tsyurupa! You look sick. Without losing time, take a two-month vacation. If you don’t promise exactly, I will complain to the Central Committee.  
Lenin  

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This note is a reply to a proposal from the People’s Commissariat of Finance: “If the old inscription is satisfactory, then you can take it from any old credit note.”  

1917–1918