Comrade Chicherin! Please arrange to have this translated and sent (with a couple of words of review—do you know what's going on here? Is he a crook? Unknown?).

To Smolyaniov (manager of affairs of the Council of Labor and Defence) for clarification from Rykov and others and for reporting to me by telephone.

With comradely greetings, Lenin

25/VII.

Written 25 July 1921

First published in 1932 in Leninskii sbornik XX

Printed from the manuscript