I request that this map be hung both here and in the premises of the Little Soviet, and that copies be distributed to the workers' clubs of Moscow.53 Before doing so, please ask N. P. Gorbunov whether it would be possible to add to this same map, if only in green lines and green hatching, the present boundaries:

(.) The Western "front" (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Rumania)
(.) Crimea (.) Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia (.) Central Asia, Bukhara
(.) Far Eastern Republic (.) The borders of the Far East—all of them now.

Lenin

Written December 21, 1920

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript