V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v39;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Inform me whether you have arranged Stalin properly and whether you guarantee that
he will not decamp before the time*.
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin
Printed from the text of the telegram written in D. A. Fotieva’s hand

1 G. K. Ordzhonikidze—in 1921 Chairman of the Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee.
2 A. P. Serebrovsky—Soviet statesman. Member of the Party since 1903. In 1920–1926, Extraordinary Plenipotentiary of the Council of Labour and Defence for the extraction and export of oil, Chairman of the Board of Azneft in Baku.
3 The secret correspondence delivered by the permanent courier for communication between the Council of Labour and Defence and the Extraordinary Plenipotentiary of the Council of Labour and Defence for the extraction and export of oil, V. V. Babinin, consisted of an envelope torn into two halves containing secret materials. Some documents were torn.