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Letter to Robert Klasson, May 24, 1921
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 153a.
Comrade Klasson:
I have received and read your paper of 20/V.1921.[1] I can hardly see you one of these days, as I am too busy.
Give a reminder to Fotieva, CPC secretary, in one or two weeksâ time.
In substance: your letter has surprised me. Usually such complaints come from the workers, who do not know how to fight red tape. But what about yourself? What about Starkov? Why didnât either you or Starkov write me in good time? Why has Starkov, who has been in Germany for months, not written to me a single time?? I think he should be penalised for that.
Why is it that he and you merely âlamentedâ, without proposing any precise changes, such as having the CPC (or,the Peopleâs Commissariat for Foreign Trade or someone else) adopt some decision. (To refrain from demanding of all the factories, etc.)
The question now is fully settled, isnât it?
(Has the Central Peat Administration already taken a -2 decision?)
Regards,
Lenin
- â Enclosed in R. E. Klassonâs letter to Lenin of May 20, 1921, was a brief report on his trip abroad on Gidrotorf business (see Note 104), and a draft CLD decision on an order to the Madruk company.
Klasson spoke about the red tape and delays at the Russian railway mission in Berlin which had been assigned the formalisation of orders for Gidrotorf.