V. I.

Lenin

98

To:   L. B. KAMENEV

24. III.1921

Comrade Kamenev:

Badaich [1] has earnestly requested me to help them in having the old Yakunchikov estate and the Khodynski
farmstead transferred to the
M.C.C. [2]

He argues that they are close to Moscow. This would give Muscovites a vegetable garden and a farm.

He says that the Gubernia Land Department will handle the supplies itself.

Badaich refers to the good experience gained in
Petrograd, where a farm was run on model lines.

In principle: the city’s interest should have an effect
on the “diligence”. Badayev is right in principle.

Or we could do this: let Badaich have it, and give the
Gubernia Land Department a formal order: you must not lag behind with your state farms, and make a comparison
in the autumn.

Lenin

P.S. In general, press forward with the vegetablegarden campaign. Should we raise this in the Council of
Labour and Defence? To provide the pressure?

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Notes:
[1]

A. Y. Badayev.— Ed .

[2]
Moscow Consumers’ Commune.— Ed.