INSTRUCTION TO THE SECRETARY

Contact Bryukhanov: if Belenky does not absolutely guarantee delivery and quickly, then it is imperative to immediately permit self-procurement. It would be criminal to lose Baku due to the idiocy or stubbornness of the commissariat traders.

2/6.

Lenin

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Written on June 2, 1920.

First published from the manuscript

NOTES ON THE TELEGRAM FROM P. V. BUKHARZEV

ON THE CONTRACT WITH THE AMERICAN CORPORATION

AND INSTRUCTION TO THE SECRETARY

Within 36 hours, give sanction for the contract with the representative of the American corporation, behind whom stands America...

... Order with a delivery term of twenty days - twine, machines, technical equipment, no later than three months - no less than two hundred locomotives with tank cars, wagons, etc. The main points
of the contract: the corporation undertakes to supply from abroad according to the orders of the authorized representative, in exchange for raw materials, all kinds of goods, materials, machines, tools, medicines, etc., except for military supplies; perfumes and luxury items, with such being delivered at one of the Black Sea ports, as indicated by the authorized representative. Second, for the supply of goods, the authorized representative pays the corporation in raw materials...

... In addition to the amounts specified in the second point, the authorized representative also pays the corporation a commission fee in raw materials, amounting to ten percent of the value of the supplied goods. Fourth, the raw materials: tobacco, wool, oilcakes, etc., provided by the authorized representative in exchange for the supplied goods, are valued at world market prices prevailing at the time of delivery...
much!

Urgent

1) Contact Lezhava (and Sheinman, if he is still here) and members of the Politburo.

2) In principle, I am for (a) negotiating: reduce the commission percentage; (b) agreeing precisely: after the delivery of their goods, our delivery or exchange in our port. Otherwise, it is not possible.

19/VI. Lenin*

Written on June 19, 1920.

First published in 1932 in the Lenin Collection XX

Published from the manuscript