V. I.

Lenin

718

To:   J. V. STALIN

This telegram has been directed to the Politbureau quite
wrongly. This matter should be decided through Soviet government channels. Such a telegram must be dispatched with the signature of both deputy chairmen, the chairman
or deputy chairman of the Concessions Committee and, finally, the head of the Central Fuel Administration. These
are the persons who are alone responsible, and should normally be responsible for the accuracy of the figures given
here, and for seeing that the instructions issued here conform with statutes and decrees issued by the Soviet
institutions concerned. I therefore refuse to vote on the
substance of this telegram. [1]

Lenin