27. III. 1921

Comrade Dzerzhinsky!

Please write to me, or have your secretary write to me briefly (10-20 lines) about the history of the unsuccessful purchase of 400 (instead of 1000) poods of boot-making supplies (and the unsuccessfully, incorrectly selected supplies).

I need this in order to indicate: how and what to avoid.

How to avoid such errors.170

Your Lenin

First published in 1959 in Lenin Collection XXXVI

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