12. XII. 1918

Comrade Radchenko, The enclosed communication has been presented to me as a proposal originating from a demonstrably honest merchant, knowledgeable in the timber trade and asserting that a multitude of theft and abuses can and ought to be exposed by this method 229.

I request that you discuss it urgently (first with yourself and Volkovskii, and if you wish, immediately in the forest collegium) and inform me directly of your conclusion.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

First published in 1933 in Lenin Collection XXI

Printed from the manuscript