V. I.

Lenin

785

To:   L. B. KAMENEV

30.X.1922

Comrade Kamenev:

Krzhizhanovsky informed me on Friday night [1] that
Comrade Pyatakov erroneously passed the military estimates
at a figure several tens of trillions of rubles higher than
agreed.

Yesterday I learned that you had failed to correct this
mistake in the C.P.C. You propose, as you say, to leave
it for the time being. Having thought about this I find
that this is an extremely dangerous and unreliable way,
which is incorrect in principle, and is inconvenient in
every respect.

I propose that we meet at my place today, on Monday, either from 1 to 2, or from 6 to 7, together with Stalin
(Zinoviev and Molotov) and agree on convening the
Politbureau, I think, this very day.

The C.P.C. decision should be reversed at once, and
Pyatakov reprimanded. Otherwise, we shall find ourselves
entangled for a long time; I am very sorry for my proposal
(which is a late one), but I cannot do otherwise.

I am sending a copy to Comrade
Stalin. [2]

With communist greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
October 27.— Ed.

[2]
See next document.— Ed.