V. I.

Lenin

1921

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To:   N. P. GORBUNOV

Once again to Comrade N. P. Gorbunov

Comrade Gorbunov:

Will you contact Semashko and M. N. Pokrovsky. This is a scandalous business. My reply should be drafted by
agreement with both and sent to me. [1]

2/1.1921. Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to Lenin’s draft reply to a letter from the Central
Committee of the Board of the Swedish Red Cross No. 2371 of
November 9, 1920, requesting that I. P. Pavlov should be given
permission to “go to Sweden where he will have the possibility of conducting his great research in a calm and favourable
atmosphere”, and stating that “the idea arose in the scientific
circles of the Nobel Prize Institute and was caught up by the
Swedish Red Cross; Prof. Pavlov knows nothing about it”
( Dokumenty vneshnei politiki SSSR =

[Documents of U.S.S.R. Foreign
Policy], Vol. III, Moscow, 1959, p. 682).

Lenin put a very high value on Pavlov’s scientific achievements and treated him with very great attention and concern.
On January 24, 1921, the C.P.C. adopted the decree written by
Lenin “Concerning the Conditions Ensuring the Research Work
of Academician I. P. Pavlov and His Associates” (present
edition, Vol. 32, p. 69). Also see this volume, Document 40.