V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v53;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO SMOLYANINOV

In view of Comrade Chicherin’s detailed and formal protest against the dispatch of the appended telegram, 106 I request that an additional conference be organised consisting of Comrade Martens, a representative of the People’s Commissariat for Labour who is conversant with this matter, and a representative of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs who is also conversant with this matter. Together with yourself, that will be four persons.

I request that this conference discuss Chicherin’s objections and pay particular attention to the fact that the telegram requires the bringing of food supplies for two years.

I think that if one more phrase is added, pointing to the struggle against difficulties and privations in Russia and to the undesirability of people who are incapable of enduring these privations, the telegram can only be of use. I request you to send me the briefest written decision not later than tomorrow evening.

Lenin