[After March 16, 1920]
Calculation of the requirements of the chief committees and commissariats for foreign goods, excluding locomotives, after reduction in the commissariat amounted to 700,000,000 gold rubles!
We will have to cut them mercilessly and order only locomotives, pipes for Emba, and so on.
Of course, everything else to the devil.
1. Locomotives
2. Pipes for oil
3. Machines, but only two samples each.

The exchange of notes between V. I. Lenin and the People's Commissar for Foreign Trade, L. B. Krasin, apparently took place at one of the Sovnarkom meetings. The underlining in Krasin's note was done by V. I. Lenin.