ON GERMAN AFFAIRS

Saratov
To the Member of the Volga Region Commissariat on German Affairs
Petin

Send immediately one company of German colonists, if you can select ones who are completely reliable, completely Soviet internationalists and who know Russian 136.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

Written 17 July 1918

First published in 1942 in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript