V. I.

Lenin

579

INSTRUCTION ON L. B. KRASIN’S NOTE

Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn should be prohibited from printing
detailed information about fuel. It is quite possible that the offensive
by the Poles is partly due to our laxity in this respect. We are past
masters at proving by statistics in our newspapers the inevitability
of our own demise for all kinds of reasons.

To Rykov : I think this is true. Your opinion? [1]

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Notes:
[1]
In his reply to Lenin, Rykov wrote that on the following day
he would order the newspaper Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn to stop
printing news about the loading and transportation of fuel,
leaving only news of procurements.