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TELEGRAM TO SAMARKAND COMMUNISTS [1]

Shafransky , Gubernia Party Committee, Samarkand

I thank the group of friends for their greetings. The main thing just now is an immediate improvement in the
conditions of the workers and peasants. On the vigour and
skill of the workers in the localities now depends everything: the tax in kind, the development of turnover
between agriculture and industry, and the development of
small-scale industry. We have no fear of capitalism, because
the proletariat has the power, transport and large-scale
industry firmly in its hands and will succeed, through its control, in channeling it into state capitalism. Under these
conditions, capitalism will help to combat red tape and
the scattering of the petty producers. We shall win out because we know what we want.

Lenin
Chairman, C.L.D.

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Notes:
[1]
Written in reply to a letter from a group of Communists of the
Samarkand organisation on June 15, 1921, “To the First Soldier of
the World Communist, Revolutionary Army”, in which they sent
their whole-hearted greetings to Lenin and expressed their
approval of the New Economic Policy. On the envelope Lenin wrote
this assignment to his secretary dated June 27, 1921: “ Urgent.
Send them a telegram, of thanks and approval. Give me the draft”
( Lenin Miscellany XX , p. 117). The draft of the reply telegram
was written by the C.P.C. Secretariat on the basis of Lenin’s
instructions.