V. I.

Lenin

740

To:   F. E. DZERZHINSKY

Comrade Dzerzhinsky:

I have a serious apprehension: there seems to be some “excess” in the expenses on my garage, which I believe
is under particular G.P.U. supervision. Isn’t it time that
this establishment is “compressed” and the expenditures
on it reduced? Everyone is reducing all expenditures.

Please show this to my “deputies” Rykov and Tsyurupa, and assign a reliable, intelligent, knowledgeable man to
check up on whether the expenses under this head can be
reduced and compressed, and reduced to the utmost. [1]

19/ V. Lenin