6. XII. 1920

To the People's Commissar of Agriculture, Comrade Midre

The bearer, Comrade Kondrat Mikhalev, happened to visit me in Zurich before the revolution as someone who had escaped from German captivity.

Subsequently he was in France and, as is evident from his credentials (French), studied the tractor business. He wishes to work with tractors.

I request that you accept him, put him to work, and test him on the job.42

Lenin

First published in 1942 in Leninski Sbornik XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript