V. I.

Lenin

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To:   N. A. SEMASHKO

Comrade Semashko:

(1) I earnestly request you to appoint a special person
(preferably a well-known physician, with a knowledge of
foreign countries and known abroad for sending abroad, to
Germany (of Tsyurupa, Krestinsky, Osinsky, Kurayev, Gorky , Korolenko and others). The utmost skill should be employed in inquiring, requesting, persuading, and writing
to Germany, to help the sick , etc.

Do this most punctiliously (thoroughly).

(2) Send the best physician to give N. I. Bukharin a medical examination (the heart , among other things) and
let me know the result.

Lenin