V. I.

Lenin

187

To:   LYDIA FOTIEVA AND L. B. KRASIN

Lyd. Al. (and Krasin)

I am signing the telegram about oil, ships, etc., with pleasure.

But I don’t agree to sign that about
Mukhin. [1] (1) Krasin writes that Mukhin concealed money from Stalin . This he had no right to do, even if “on the
instructions of his (!!??) chiefs”, for Stalin too is a chief, and a
higher one, too, though not “his”.

(2) It is wrong formally and impermissible generally to
decide this without asking Stalin (and Stalin is in
Moscow!!).

Greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Krasin asked Lenin to sign a telegram to the Tsaritsyn
Extraordinary Commission for them to set free N. Mukhin, an employee
of the Chief Oil Committee, who had been arrested, and allow
him to travel freely to Moscow. Krasin proposed sending a copy of
the telegram to Stalin in Tsaritsyn.