V. I.

Lenin

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To:   G. V. CHICHERIN

Comrade Chicherin:

The underscored is absolutely intolerable. [1] The People’s
Commissar is duty bound precisely to carry out the C.P.C.
decision winding up the Groman commission. You failed to protest the decision in the C.C., the decision of 7.IX,
and are inventing some kind of “friction” (where? whose?
why talk of “friction”, when there is a mandatory decision?

You yourself are creating it). How the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Affairs can hope to “get it going”
contrary to the Council of People’s Commissars is inconceivable. This is chaos and disorganisation. You are the one
who is impeding the C.P.C. decisions, and that is absolutely
intolerable.

29/ XI.
Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to the last paragraph in G. V. Chicherin’s dispatch
to L. B. Krasin of November 27, 1920, which said:
“Re-establishment of the Groman Commission by the People’s Commissariat
for Foreign Trade and ourselves is being delayed by statistician
Popov who wants to take part. For some reason, the C.P.C. has
supported him. The friction continues. We hope soon to get
the commission going,” Lenin underscored the paragraph, drew
three lines in the margin and pat two exclamation and two question marks (Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee). The
letter in question was written by Lenin on the dispatch.