748. To M. K. VLADIMIROV

Written on August 21, 1922 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 561

21/VIII.

Comrade Vladimirov:

As regards the apparatus, you are being unjustly aggrieved. I quite agree with you, and am informing both Stalin and Rykov about it.—— As regards catching out “NEPmen” I advise that we give very careful thought (perhaps, assign to this in a highly secret manner Rozengolts and another one or two comrades) about what we should do shortly: either introduce an income tax or a compulsory loan? or: which earlier?

Local finances have already yielded considerable data. They should be systematically collected and processed, winkling out the names and then deciding the matter raised.

With communist greetings,
Lenin