NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN

September 23, 1918

Comrade Chicherin!

I am returning the documents to you. You did not write the purpose of their dispatch: if that purpose is to seek advice, then I have nothing against it. I have not seen Stalin and have not spoken with him².

Your Lenin

¹ What documents are in question has not been established.
² On September 22, 1918, I. V. Stalin departed for Tsaritsyn.

RESOLUTION ON A TELEGRAM FROM KATIN, COMMANDER OF MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS OF THE EASTERN FRONT

[1918, September, not before the 28th]

Inform Trotsky.

I propose that an investigation be appointed and that those guilty of dereliction of duty be shot.

| 9/28 the enemy could have blown up the bridge!!! |

Lenin