Published:
First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1976,
Moscow,
Volume 45,
pages 105b-106a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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27.III.1921
Comrade Dzerzhinsky:
Please write for me, or have your secretary write for me, a short (10–20 lines) note about the unsuccessful purchase of 400 (instead of 1,000) poods of accessories for making boots (accessories whose selection was unsatisfactory, wrong).
I need this to issue instructions on what we are to avoid and how. How similar mistakes are to be avoided.[1]
Yours,
Lenin
[1] In reply to this note, Dzerzhinsky sent Lenin a short report the same day describing the circumstances of the unsuccessful purchase of foreign tacks. On Dzerzhinsky’s report Lenin wrote: “(About tacks). Keep and give me a reminder” (Lenin Miscellany XXXVI, p. 211).
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