Does not know how things should be done in the Soviet Republic:

1) obtain an extract from the minutes of the Politburo,

2) on the basis of this obtain a decision of the Small Council (over my signature) or from the corresponding People's Commissar,

3) in case of non-fulfillment lodge a complaint to me within 24 hours formally,

4) repeat this procedure many times over.

Naive is he who does not know this.

24/VI. Lenin

Written 24 June 1920

Published for the first time, from the manuscript