V. I.

Lenin

In view of the Entente’s intention to effect an exchange of
commodities through the co-operatives with the patent design of using the
co-operatives as an instrument for restoring capitalism, the C.C. instructs
the Chairman of Centrosoyuz, the People’s Commissariat for Food, the
Chairman of the S.E.C. and the People’s Commissariat for Trade to consider
the question of the cooperatives very carefully from this angle and
immediately work out measures ensuring full control on our part of the
co-operative machinery primarily at all the points where such trade may be
arranged (the Ukraine, the Soviet Far East).

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