V. I.

Lenin

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To:   M. I. FRUMKIN [1]

1/ II–1921.

Comrade Frumkin:

We have been receiving (from inside and outside) more and more information about the absolutely intolerable
“independence” of the Ukraine in matters of the People’s
Commissariat for Food.

You must dig right down to the whole truth, which is obviously being concealed from us (to some extent
probably unwittingly, by conniving at those whose concealment
is deliberate ). This is a serious matter, and we shall not
let it go at that; we shall find out the whole truth.

We shall fully expose the role of Peshekhonov (worse than any whiteguard), who had clearly been fooling the
Ukrainian C.C. (we do not yet know through whom he had done that, but we shall find out).

But just now, and above all, you are fully responsible for finding out and getting at all the facts , and must see to
it that you are not duped by Peshekhonov and those who have been deceived by the
Peshekhonovs. [2]

Awaiting your reply, With communist greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
See Document 62 of this volume.— Ed.

[2]

A. V. Peshekhonov, one-time Minister for Food in the
bourgeois Provisional Government, worked at the Central Statistical
Bureau of the Ukraine in 1921. On January 20, 1922, the
Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee decided to dismiss
him from his job. In July 1922, Peshekhonov was arrested for
participation in the counter-revolutionary League of Regeneration
and deported.