V. I.

Lenin

274

To:   N. P. BRYUKHANOV

Comrade Bryukhanov:

Have you quite normalised relations with Potyaev? Have you erased every trace of the squabble? That is imperative.

I am not blaming you for the squabble, but someone (? who?) on the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat
for Food. I don’t know who was chiefly to blame. I think
your fault lies in weakness: you should have found the squabbler and given him a severe drubbing in public,
letting me sign a paper issuing him a reprimand. I believe
there is a trouble-maker on the Collegium of the People’s
Commissariat for Food!

With communist greetings, Lenin

24/VII.

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