V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51; en:CW/CW44;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

L. B. KRASSIN AND M. M. LITVINOV

Krassin, Litvinov, Copenhagen
Coded telegram

In reply to your Nos. 34, 35, 49, 43 and 48 we inform you: 1) The agreements with the consortium of Swedish metal-working and locomotive-building plants are satisfactory, sign them. Explain whether the agreed method of payment with the granting of credit to us applies to all Swedish metal goods we purchase or exclusively to orders we may place in future. 2) Gold to the value of thirty-two million kronor will be sent to Reval at your request. 3) We doubt whether Scandinavian industry can do much to help restore our transport. The delivery of a thousand locomotives in six years confirms this. We regard the concluded agreement as important mainly for the purpose of exerting pressure on the big locomotive-building plants in Europe and America. 4) Further expenditure of gold will have to be extremely restricted. We consider the political situation at the moment insufficiently favourable for placing a considerable part of our fund abroad. The list of goods and their quantity for which you may be granted the right to pay in gold will be communicated to you later. 5) What is the position regarding the regulation of orders placed by Vorovsky, and what has become of the Russian gold deposited in Sweden by the Provisional Government?

Lenin*
May 8