V. I.

Lenin

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To:   M. K. VLADIMIROV

21/VIII.

Comrade Vladimirov :

As regards the apparatus, you are being unjustly aggrieved. I quite agree with you, and am informing both
Stalin and Rykov about it.—— As regards catching out “NEPmen” I advise that we give very careful thought
(perhaps, assign to this in a highly secret manner
Rozengolts and another one or two comrades) about what we should do shortly: either introduce an income tax or a
compulsory loan? or: which earlier?

Local finances have already yielded considerable data.
They should be systematically collected and processed, winkling out the names and then deciding the matter
raised.

With communist greetings, Lenin

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