URGENT
To Fomin and Rykov for a written agreement on emergency measures.
13/IX [1920] Lenin

1 The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Far Eastern Republic, A. M. Krasnoshchekov, in a telegram from Verkhneudinsk dated September 9, 1920, reported on the situation in the Far Eastern Republic and requested the dispatch of a worker familiar with local conditions and capable of combating partisanship and separatism.
V. V. Fomin — Commissioner of the Main Administration of Communications and member of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of Communications.
* The telegram is also signed by the Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, E. M. Sklyansky, and the Commander of the Naval Forces of the Republic, A. V. Nemytz.

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RESOLUTION AND NOTE ON THE TELEGRAM FROM L. B. KRASIN FROM LONDON
[September 1920, no earlier than 24]
Comrade Lezhava!
Do not miss it! Agree with Trotsky or submit to the SNK or S. Ob.1
Lenin
From London, 2/23 130/129 23/9 6 35
Received and decoded on 24/9/20
Moscow, to Chicherin
Copies: to Lezhava, Lenin, Krestinsky
Received a message from Lomonosov from Berlin about Kopp's intention to realize 100 million rubles on September 24 through a dubious intermediary under conditions that exclude the possibility of placing a locomotive order in Germany. Attaching the greatest importance to the placement of the locomotive order in Germany and having grounds to distrust the environment surrounding Kopp, I insist on postponing this deal and informing me of its terms. Furthermore, it is clear to all of us here that without the participation of British financial circles, any major deal in Germany will inevitably end in failure. I await your immediate response.
September 23, 1920 Krasin
1 The issue of placing locomotive orders abroad was constantly on Lenin's radar, as evidenced by his correspondence. See Lenin Collection XXXVIII, pp. 329-330.
A. M. Lezhava — a party member since 1904. In 1918-1920, he was the Chairman of Centrosouz. At this time, he was the Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Trade.
L. D. Trotsky (Bronstein) — a member of the RSDLP since 1897, a Menshevik from the Second Party Congress. During the years of reaction and the new revolutionary upsurge, he stood on the positions of the liquidators. In 1912, he was the organizer of the anti-party August Bloc. During the period of the imperialist world war, he took a centrist position.
At the Sixth Congress of the RSDLP(b), together with the group of "inter-districts," he was admitted into the Bolshevik Party. After the October Socialist Revolution, he held several responsible posts. He conducted factional struggles against the Leninist program of building socialism and defended the capitulationist theory of the impossibility of socialist victory in the USSR. In 1927, he was expelled from the party, in 1929, he was exiled from the USSR for anti-Soviet activities, and in 1932, he was deprived of Soviet citizenship. As a bitter enemy of Leninism, he continued the struggle against the Soviet state and the Communist Party, and against the international communist movement.