6. XII. 1921

Comrade Tsyurupa!

You will see from the papers what the matter is.109

Our Glavleskom is weak. (Smilga's departure on medical leave will weaken it further.)
We must therefore think about how to help matters with firewood, so that by spring or towards spring we do not face a catastrophe.

Lenin

First published in 1933 in Lenin Collection XXIII

Printed from the manuscript