Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

288

TELEGRAM TO G. K. ORJONIKIDZE


Written: Written on July 4, 1921
Published: First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Sent to Tiflis. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 35, page 508.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Orjonikidze

I am surprised that you are interfering with Stalin’s holiday. Stalin ought still to rest for not less than four or six weeks. Get a written opinion from good doctors.

Let me know what you are doing for Baku and for the development of foreign trade. Your silence about this makes me suspicious.

Lenin