V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE EDITORIAL BOARDS OF PRAVDA AND IZVESTIA

May 9, 1921

I request you to pay particular attention to the article
in Posledniye Novosti [1] (Paris) No. 309:

“ Milyukov and Avksentyev among the Americans”.

It is essential systematically to record such articles and
paragraphs; there is a mass of them; they should be summarised , impressing on our departments and on the reading
public among the workers and peasants that the more intelligent whiteguard bourgeoisie
understands perfectly well the importance of concessions and foreign trade to Soviet power and therefore makes it its main task now to thwart
trade agreements between the R.S.F.S.R. and foreign states, to frustrate the policy of concessions.

Please drop me a line on this question.

With communist greetings, Lenin