V. I.

Lenin

554

To:   L. B. KRASIN [1]

Why should you not submit a separate decree for calling
in experts (electricians) from, abroad and allocating 500,000
rubles for this purpose? It would be effective (and politically useful ).

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Notes:
[1]
At its meeting on March 16, 1920, the Council of People’s
Commissars discussed the draft of a decree presented by L. B. Krasin
enabling orders to be placed abroad for locomotives and spare
parts for railway transport repairs. Three hundred million rubles
in gold were earmarked for this purpose. Lenin’s note was
apparently written at this meeting.