NOTE TO S. S. PILIAVSKII *.
22/XI [1921]
Comrade Piliavskii!
Please send me a brief written report of how much the Entente debts to us have been calculated by your commission2
of category a) fully proven, detailed;
b) (less detailed;
c) I less demonstrably justified.
etc.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ul'ianov (Lenin).
1 S. S. Piliavskii — chairman of the commission for determining losses
from the war.
2 On November 1, 1921, the Council of People's Commissars appointed a commission to develop practical
issues related to debt negotiations. On November 22 of the same
year, the issue of debts was again discussed at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, after which
the commission headed by S. S. Piliavskii was asked to complete its
work by December.
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