166. TELEGRAM TO A. P. SEREBROVSKY

First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX. Printed from the original. · page 147

By telegraph

Serebrovsky,
Azerbaijan Oil Committee, Baku, or Tiflis,
or wherever he may be 

19.V.1921

I have read your garrulous telegram to Sergo.^[1] Keep your reports short and more precise, state how much food and clothing you are getting for the workers of Baku. It is absurd to increase the number of workers so long as a smaller number of them have yet to be provided with food and clothing.

Lenin

Notes

[1] MISSING