19. XI. 1921

Comrade Gorbunov!

This is an absolutely improper action on your part—that you give me such an important document on 17/XI (!!) with such an empty note.

It should have been submitted to the Council of Labor and Defense!

You are responsible if, because of Avanesov's departure, a mistake was made, and if neither you nor Smolyaninov got in touch in time either with Ivan Nikitich Smirnov (easy: he's in Petersburg) or with Chutskayev. You are at fault.

Why is some Krasinsk­y bustling about while you and Smolyaninov do nothing?? 62

Lenin

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript