Cipher

To Krasin

We need all sorts of loans very badly, because the main thing now is to obtain, and moreover immediately, a commodity fund for exchange for grain with the peasants. This immediate goal must now subordinate all the policy of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade.

Answer me on this.

Lenin

Written before June 1921

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript