To Deputy People's Commissar of Food, Comrade Bryukhanov

To Deputy People's Commissar of Railways, Comrade Fomin

To Deputy People's Commissar of Finance, Comrade Alsky

To People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Comrade Chicherin

I am sending you Protocol No. 13 and the agenda of the meeting of the Council of Foreign Trade from February 28. I call your attention to the fact that such carelessness cannot possibly be tolerated.

I request that you immediately submit explanations for the cause of such carelessness and what measures you have taken to eliminate it in the future.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written March 3, 1921

First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX

Printed from the typescript signed by V. I. Lenin