AND INSTRUCTIONS TO V. A. SMOLYANINOV

Comrade Fotiyeva!

You are clearly at fault in the matter of the Shaturka affair (No. 3 in the folder).

Received
IV
14.

Today
V
23.

You have shelved it without reminding either me or Smolyaninov.

This cannot be done.

One cannot shelve matters. You must either read it yourself — or have Smolyaninov read it, or Gorbunov.

Now pass this to Smolyaninov, having written him an instruction on my letterhead:
.) immediately verify by telephone whether anything has been done.
.) If not, at once proceed formally, giving me the business documents for signature.
aa) dissolution of the "Politburo," bb) issue 2 (—4?) boilers (?) etc. 297

23/V. Lenin

Written May 23, 1921

First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX

Printed from the manuscript