EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH I. V. STALIN
13 May 1920

Comrade Stalin!

If you find an absolutely reliable expert, a specialist in this matter, request his opinion and do not refuse to inform me*.

Your Lenin

25 May 1920

Comrade Lenin!

In response to your request I am sending the opinion of someone who knows the matter—the manager of the finance department of the RKI, Comrade Achkasov. Nogin's project appears to me to be the fruit of careerist aspirations of a group of officials seeking to create new sinecures. It should be rejected just as the so-called GVUPT was rejected.

Your I. Stalin

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