March, 1919
LENIN'S NOTE
§§ 10 and 14 speak of a new center (which will be from
Communists, who fleece a little, but at least don't take strong drink).1

But about the old apparatus nil!
— nothing. Ed.

KRESTINSKY'S RESPONSE
§§ 7, 8 and 9 speak not of a board of Communists, but of the board of the previous composition X
Commissar or Communists.

LENIN'S NOTE
X X not a word anywhere

The phrase "who fleece a little, but at least don't take strong drink"
is from I. A. Krylov's fable "The Musicians."
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