V. I. Lenin

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

To Comrades Lezhava and M. N. Pokrovsky

I insist on the utmost speed in this matter and on submitting to the Council of People’s Commissars on Tuesday (October 26) a draft decision:

1) to decide to sell these articles abroad as quickly as possible;

2) to demand from the People’s Commissariat for Education an official reply by Tuesday, October 26, as to whether it objects (it is said that they have already selected articles for our museums: I agree to give them only the strictly necessary minimum);

3) to send a special commission of experts and dealers abroad immediately, promising them a good bonus for a speedy and advantageous sale;

4) considering that the work is proceeding at an excessively slow pace (8 and 33), I deem it absolutely necessary to strengthen the expert commission (Gorky suggests up to 200 persons) and to give them a food ration on condition of completing the work quickly. 360

October 21. Lenin