V. I.

Lenin

296

To:   G. I. SAFAROV

August 7

Comrade Safarov, Thank you very much for the pamphlet [1] and other
material.

We are sending Joffe to make an attempt to combine your line and Tomsky’s.

That must be done.

Unquestionably grain and meat to Moscow, first and foremost .

For this purpose, both the “New Economic Policy” in general and a number of concessions and bonuses to the
merchants.

At the same time, systematic and maximum concern for the Moslem poor, for their organisation and education.

Such a policy can and must be worked out and fixed (in a number of the most precise directives).

It must be a model for the whole East.

Best greetings.

Yours, Lenin

P.S. After the line has been worked out, you, too, will
probably be granted leave.

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Notes:
[1]
Reference is to Safarov’s pamphlet Ocheredniye voprosy natsionalnoi politiki (Current Questions of the Nationalities Policy) published
in 1921.