Secret
Copy to Comrade Solts, Chairman of the Central Control Commission
14/X. 1921
Comrade Martens!
Having received your letter to Litvinov, I express my extreme regret and indignation. As an official, I would, **at the very least**, announce to you a **severe reprimand** with its entry into your labor book.
Litvinov did not do well by using the maliciously polemical expression about "Martens' friends."
This is not good. But there is no insult here yet.

And you responded with an unprecedented insult: "conscious distortion of the truth," etc.
I am forwarding this letter of mine, along with your copy, to the Central Control Commission.
With communist greetings, Lenin