V. I.   Lenin

681

To:   N. N. KRESTINSKY

Written: Written on September 2, 1920
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 426^b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Krestinsky,

I think the persons responsible for this waste of expensive paper and printing facilities should be prosecuted, fired, and arrested.^[1]

Lenin

2/IX.

Notes

[1] This refers to the publication by Goznak (the Administration of Factories for the Issue of Banknotes) of a pamphlet On the Construction of a Special State Paper Mill, Moscow, 1920. The pamphlet was printed on high-grade paper and its 36 pages had 11 insets on art paper.