274. To N. P. BRYUKHANOV

Written on July 24, 1921 · First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX. Printed from the original. · page 225

Comrade Bryukhanov:

Have you quite normalised relations with Potyaev? Have you erased every trace of the squabble? That is imperative.

I am not blaming you for the squabble, but someone (? who?) on the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Food. I don’t know who was chiefly to blame. I think your fault lies in weakness: you should have found the squabbler and given him a severe drubbing in public, letting me sign a paper issuing him a reprimand. I believe there is a trouble-maker on the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Food!

With communist greetings,
Lenin

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