V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO MAXIM GORKY [1]

Gorky
Petrograd

In reply to your letter of 5/III, I quote the text of the
telegram which the People’s Commissariat for Food sent to Badayev: “Pending final settlement by a special
commission of the Council of People’s Commissars of the
question of improving the position of scientists, you are
instructed to continue supplies according to the plan previously
adopted by you, i.e., without making a reduction in keeping with recent orders of the People’s Commissariat for
Food.”
Pokrovsky’s commission is appealing against the
Petrograd list as being unfair. Sapozhnikov was released
on 9/III. Manukhin has to present to Semashko, People’s
Commissar for Health, a description of the method of the
proposed research, on the results of the examination of
which the decision depends.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars