V. I.

Lenin

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To:   G. V. CHICHERIN AND L. M. KARAKHAN [1]

Comrades Chicherin and Karakhan

Please let me know your opinion and return both documents to =
me. [2] I draw the attention of the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Affairs to the fact that its circumvention of the C.P.C. decision (through a “parallel”
apparatus or commission under another name or pretext) is
absolutely intolerable . I have the suspicion that the P.C.F.A.
is actually circumventing the C.P.C. decision. This is a
warning. I request a most precise opinion, without evasions
or suppression of the facts.

7/ III. Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The document was written on a report by A. G. Goikhbarg,
Deputy Chairman of the Narrow C.P.C., about breaches by the
People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the C.P.C. decision
of November 30, 1920, concerning the work of the commission
on the question of the looses inflicted on Soviet Russia by the
imperialist war, the armed intervention of the Entente and the
blockade. The C.P.C. decision put the duty on the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and the People’s Commissariat
for Foreign Trade to place at the commission’s disposal all the
available material on this question. But in a letter to Lenin on
March 5, 1921 (which Lenin passed to Goikhbarg the same day),
Deputy People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs L. M.
Karakhan said that the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs was
also working on the question of the losses and requested that the
material should be handed over to a commission of the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.

On April 14, 1921, the Narrow C.P.C. examined the question
of the P.C.F.A.’s violation of the C.P.C. decision and took into
consideration Karakhan’s statement that the P.C.F.A. had
stopped working on the question of the losses.

[2]
A reference to A. G. Goikhbarg’s report of March 7 and L. M.
Karakhan’s letter of March 5, 1921.