V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v52;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

SECRET

Comrade Krzhizhanovsky

10/VI.

Comrade Krzhizhanovsky!

I am afraid that, because of Comintern affairs, our meeting with you in the next few days will not be possible.

Hence a few words in writing.

The “insolent fellow” is an arch-swindler. 394 I am even afraid that he has deliberately made use of my letter. 395

We must think out the strategy.

What about doing this:

1) In two or three weeks’ time, give a review of the facts of the work, and in a footnote make a contemptuous reference to Communists who do not work?

2) Hasten the individualisation of assignments. Do not delay.

3) Give the “insolent fellow” precisely such an assignment, and

4) At the same time give the same assignment to a more efficient, businesslike and cautious man.

5) Collect documentary material against the insolent fellow and submit it (in five or seven weeks, perhaps in two or three weeks, but not in the next few days) to the Central Committee?

I repeat, we must seriously think out the struggle. For the insolent fellow is lying and may gain by his lies.

Send Balieva (through Fotieva) when you have fully used her yourself. 396

Push Ramzin into practical work, practical—business proposals in the Supreme Economic Council and the Council of Labour and Defence. I am always afraid, terribly afraid, that he is academic!!

Yours, Lenin