I request that you promptly forward the following information to the sender of this communication:

1) How much santonin is currently held in the Foreign Trade Department?

2) Where is it stored—in which warehouses, and to whom do these warehouses belong?

3) How much has been sold, at what price, and where?

4) According to what procedures—and through whom—is it being sold?

Chairman of the Sovnarkom  
15/September 1921  

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First published in 1933.

In the Lenin Collection, Volume XXIII.

Printed from typewritten copy.