V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE CHEREMKHOVO COAL MINERS

September 15, 1920

To the Chief Board of Management of the Coal Mines of Eastern Siberia
For the workers in the mines and also for their technical personnel

Dear Comrades, I thank you with all my heart for your greetings of
August 2, 1920, transmitted through Comrade Ivan
Yakovlevich Ilyin. My talk with Comrade Ilyin about the energetic
work being done in the Siberian mines and his report of
the gradual growth of conscious discipline among the workers (who are now working not for the capitalists but
for themselves) gave me tremendous pleasure.

Particularly precious in your greetings, comrades, was the feeling of the deepest conviction in the final and
complete victory of Soviet power over the landowners, capitalists and all kinds of exploiters, and also your unswerving
firmness and determination to overcome all obstacles and
difficulties. It is from this firmness of the working class
and toiling masses that, like every other Communist, I draw my confidence in the inevitable world victory of
the workers and the workers’ cause.

With communist greetings, and wishes for your speediest
success, Devotedly yours,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

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