Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

314

To: V. M. MOLOTOV^[1]

Written: Written on August 11, 1921
Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 253^a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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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.