Date: 1922-02-06
Source: ru:PSS/v54

Source: PSS vol 54

I propose supplementing this telegram with a request to Comrade Litkens, urging him to also provide references for no fewer than ten employees of the People’s Commissariat for Press Affairs—those who have distinguished themselves most prominently in recent years or months at the central level.

I regard all of these references as absolutely essential, since the People’s Commissariat for Press Affairs has utterly failed to effectively engage local personnel; yet we must identify suitable candidates for it in order to rejuvenate the commission’s membership.

Lenin

Dictated over the telephone

February 6, 1922

Copies

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First published in 1945

in Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from typewritten copy