IMPORTANT

Source: PSS vol. 53

Comrade Smolyaninov!

It is necessary to look into this telegram carefully. What is this "forced commodity exchange"? What is the actual equivalent? Question A. P. Smirnov about it. Send a dispatch to Ponomarenko and follow up on the reply.

31/8. Lenin

Written August 31, 1921

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript