V. I.

Lenin

603

To:   L. B. KAMENEV AND J. V. STALIN

Comrades Kamenev and Stalin:

I have just learned—to my horror—from Sokolnikov that he rejects (!) the Politbureau’s directive concerning the
trio (he + Preobrazhensky + Krasnoshchekov).

This is chaos!

This is a scandal!

This means that the C.C. apparatus is not working! This
should be reaffirmed not later than tomorrow. [1]

And—I insist again and again—that no question should be allowed to go to the Supreme Economic Commission
without the written proposals and counter-proposals of the People’s Commissars and their deputies or assistants
concerned . Otherwise this is chaos, red tape, empty talk, irresponsibility .

9.30 p.m. 25/I.

Lenin