I advise: 1) To Krasin by cipher: "the scoundrel Lloyd George is shamelessly and brazenly swindling you, don't believe a single word and swindle him three times over."

2) To Curzon: send, in my opinion, a mocking telegram (of course, when we gave him weapons, he began the offensive, not you, and when we gave him coal, he led the fleet, not you, and in that spirit).

Lenin

Written June 11, 1920

Published for the first time, from the manuscript