NOTE TO G. IA. SOKOL'NIKOV *\
To Comrade Sokol'nikov.
Copy: to Comrade Kamenev
December 24, 1921
I have just read your brochure “State Capitalism and the New Financial Policy”. I consider the earliest
' Danger in delay. Ed.
* Printed from a machine copy. Ed,

FINANCIAL QUESTIONS
1 93 publication of it absolutely useful. On page 23, line
5th from the top, I advise you to replace the word “mordoboi” [fisticuffs] with the word “boinia” [slaughter].
If there is polemic on certain points of your brochure,
it will only be beneficial. I ask you to prepare for Monday,
or for Tuesday, a draft of the briefest directive from the Central Committee
regarding the maximum acceleration of the introduction of taxes. Send the draft
in the name of Comrade Smol'ianinov or Fotieva to the Council of People's Commissars.
Lenin.
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