V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. M. BAZHANOV AND S. A. GETSOV

Comrades Bazhanov or Getsov, Central Coal Administration, S.E.C.

Please take all resolute measures to secure the earliest
purchase of coal-cutting machines abroad. To expedite procurement and to clarify all matters connected with the
purchase make use of the presence in Moscow of Comrade
Stomonyakov, the authorised representative of the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Trade in Germany.

Please keep me informed through Comrade Smolyaninov about all the measures you take to expedite procurement
and purchase of the machinery.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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