314. To V. M. MOLOTOV^[1]

Written on August 11, 1921 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53. Printed from the original. · page 253

Comrade Molotov

I am against.

The audit game should not be played that hard; Lutovinov is engaged only in auditing. Shlyapnikov will not do.

11/VIII.

Lenin

Notes

[1] Written on a report from the People’s Commissariat for Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection to the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee requesting its sanction for the dispatch abroad of auditing groups to inspect R.S.F.S.R. trade missions.