28. X. 1921

Comrade Bogdanov!

I have just learned by chance that the commission (on the matter of the Urquhart concession) has still not departed! 371

This is a monstrous delay, the height of outrage. I propose that you impose penalties on those responsible for the delay and ensure the commission's actual departure immediately.

If the Supreme Council of the National Economy tolerates such bureaucratic obstruction, then we should abandon all "construction."

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1933 in the Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript