"It has been 'promised' many times, and all the deadlines have long since passed!

The importance of this matter for us (especially for propaganda in the East) is exceptional. Procrastination and negligence here are criminal.

Abroad, all this already exists; what is missing can and must be purchased. In all probability, there is criminal negligence somewhere.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

September 2, 1921.

published in 1932 in the journal "Radiofront" No. 3

Printed in full in 1933.

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First published incompletely

in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript