Instruction on Leonid Krasin’s Note, April, prior to 28, 1920

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Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn should be prohibited from printing detailed information about fuel. It is quite possible that the offensive by the Poles is partly due to our laxity in this respect. We are past masters at proving by statistics in our newspapers the inevitability of our own demise for all kinds of reasons.

To Rykov: I think this is true. Your opinion?[1]

  1. In his reply to Lenin, Rykov wrote that on the following day he would order the newspaper Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn to stop printing news about the loading and transportation of fuel, leaving only news of procurements.