V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v46; en:CW/CW34;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO GRACH

We have just received news from Nikolai (= Ernst) that he has transported and stored in a safe place 4½ poods; that is the first thing. The second is that there is always the possibility for our man to cross the frontier together with a smuggler, and that such people are needed. So here is the proposal we make to you: go to the place at once, travel with one of your passports to Nikolai in Memel, learn everything from him, then cross the frontier with a Grenzkarte* or with a smuggler, take the literature lying on this side (i.e., in Russia) and deliver it everywhere. Obviously, for the success of the undertaking, another man is needed on the Russian side to help Nikolai and to keep an eye on him, a man always ready

*—frontier pass. Ed.

to cross the frontier secretly, and chiefly engaged in receiving the literature on the Russian side and taking it to Pskov, Smolensk, Vilno, Poltava. We have completely lost confidence in Nikolai and his C°, have decided not to give them another penny, and only with the direct participation in the transport of a man who is fully ours can we hope to make use of this route. You would be suitable for this because (1) you have already been to Nikolai once, and (2) you have two passports. The job is difficult and serious, requiring a change of residence, but it is the most important job for us. Think it over carefully and reply immediately, without putting it off for a single day. If you do not take this assignment upon yourself, we shall have to hand over this post to someone else at once. Therefore we again insistently ask you to reply at once.