Published:
First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1976,
Moscow,
Volume 45,
page 587b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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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
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