taken from: 'The Importance Of Gold Now And After The Complete Victory Of Socialism' (written November, 1921). First Published: Pravda No. 251, November 6-7, 1921. later published in: 'Lenin's Collected Works', 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 33, pages 109-116

original text:

[..] When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world. This would be the most "just" and most educational way of utilising gold for the benefit of these generations which have not forgotten how, for the sake of gold, ten million men were killed and thirty million maimed in the 'great war for freedom', the war of 1914-18, the war that was waged to decide the great question of which peace was the worst, that of Brest or that of Versailles; and how, for the sake of this same gold, they certainly intend to kill twenty million men and to maim sixty million in a war, say, in 1925, or 1928, between, say, Japan and the U.S.A., or between Britain and the U.S.A., or something like that. [..]

about the quoted person:

russian revolutionary and political theoretician, one of the leaders of the russian Bolshevik party since its establishment in 1903. he was the creator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and headed its first government.see vladimir ilyitch lenin for a comprehensive biography.