Comrade Badaev! Don't be temperamental — you're not a young lady. You were not asked whether you consider "all your actions" "absolutely (!!) correct" (that's ridiculous!!), but whether you carried out the directives of the center. And you're keeping silent about that! Work, we're not accepting resignations. Go ahead and execute all the directives of the center and don't talk improper nonsense about "intrigues."

4/V.

Greetings! Lenin

Written May 4, 1919

First published in 1959 in Leninskii sbornik XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript