681. To N. N. KRESTINSKY

Written on September 2, 1920 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 426

Comrade Krestinsky,

I think the persons responsible for this waste of expensive paper and printing facilities should be prosecuted, fired, and arrested.^[1]

Lenin

2/IX.

Notes

[1] This refers to the publication by Goznak (the Administration of Factories for the Issue of Banknotes) of a pamphlet On the Construction of a Special State Paper Mill, Moscow, 1920. The pamphlet was printed on high-grade paper and its 36 pages had 11 insets on art paper.