785. To L. B. KAMENEV

First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54. Printed from the original. · page 587

30.X.1922

Comrade Kamenev:

Krzhizhanovsky informed me on Friday night^[1] that Comrade Pyatakov erroneously passed the military estimates at a figure several tens of trillions of rubles higher than agreed.

Yesterday I learned that you had failed to correct this mistake in the C.P.C. You propose, as you say, to leave it for the time being. Having thought about this I find that this is an extremely dangerous and unreliable way, which is incorrect in principle, and is inconvenient in every respect.

I propose that we meet at my place today, on Monday, either from 1 to 2, or from 6 to 7, together with Stalin (Zinoviev and Molotov) and agree on convening the Politbureau, I think, this very day.

The C.P.C. decision should be reversed at once, and Pyatakov reprimanded. Otherwise, we shall find ourselves entangled for a long time; I am very sorry for my proposal (which is a late one), but I cannot do otherwise.

I am sending a copy to Comrade Stalin.^[2]

With communist greetings,
Lenin

Notes

[1] October 27.—Ed.

[2] See next document.—Ed.