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To:   G. Y. SOKOLNIKOV [1]

4/IV.

Comrade Sokolnikov:

I am sending you this confidentially ; please return to
me with your reply.

I think that Alsky should be chased out (he is of no use); Krasnoshchekov should be returned. He is right. The
policy has now been laid down; he can do nothing against you.

He will arrange the apparatus . There is no apparatus.
Alsky will never do this. I have a similar reference about
him from A. D. Tsyurupa. You are to give direction; you
will have no chance of dealing with the apparatus. You do
not have to appoint Krasnoshchekov to the Narrow C.P.C.

Please reply today, because I want to leave tonight. [2]

Yours,

Lenin