V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54; en:MT;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

I would particularly like to draw your attention to my letter to Sokolnikov on trade, the State Bank and the Commercial Department of the State Bank.*

The whole point is trade and its capture by the State Bank.

But with us, apparently, the Commercial Department of the State Bank is not at all “commercial”, but just as b... 
bureaucratic as everything else in the R.S.F.S.R. In my opinion, we must bear down on this with all our might and secure the introduction of tantièmes, verification by practical results, and the e x p u l s i o n from the Commercial Department of the State Bank of everything that is sluggish, everything that is non-commercial, everything that does not know how to achieve success in trade.

We do not need a “Department of Internal Trade” (we have plenty of such g... departments), but one or two dozen

* See present volume, Document 271. Ed.

people in the State Bank who know how to trade (and teach others to trade). That is the whole point; without that we shall not put the currency system in order.

With communist greetings,
Lenin