V. I.

Lenin

251

To:   F. E. DZERZHINSKY AND I. S. UNSCHLICHT

Dzerzhinsky, People’s Commissariat for Railways

Unschlicht, All-Russia Extraordinary Commission

I draw your attention to the following telegram which

I have received. [1] Please take the most vigorous measures
to combat this and let me know what exactly you have done and how you have arranged to check up on the
measures actually taken.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The notes to V. A. Smolyaninov were written in connection with
the fitting out of the Kara expedition to deliver goods to the
mouth of the Ob and the Yenisei in Siberia for commodity exchange
with a Swedish company. S. Y. Chutskayev, Deputy
Chairman of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee, in a telegram to
Lenin on July 8, 1921, expressed doubt concerning the successful outcome of the Kara expedition, in view of L. B. Krasin’s
cancellation of the agreement with the Swedes and the purchases
of goods from the British.

On July 14, 1921, on Lenin’s assignment, V. A. Smolyaninov,
together with L. B. Krasin, wrote a reply to Chutskayev
informing him of the measures taken to ensure the expedition,