V. I.

Lenin

403

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Comrade Zinoviev

Copy: To Radek

” To Rakosi

” To Pravda secretary

24.IX.1921

Pravda has started to publish reports about the collections by foreign workers in aid of the starving in
Russia. [1]
That is not the kind of reports we need. What you have is a story . We have no paper for “stories” and no time to
read them. They are quite useless.

What we need is very short tables twice a month on the following lines:

Germany — 10 million marks=about ( ) gold rubles

Austria — 10 ” kronen—about ( ) gold rubles

Total ——— about ( ) gold rubles

This will take 20 or 30 lines twice a month.
That is not much.

That is the only thing we need. A total in gold rubles.
I very strongly request you to do this and let me know.

With communist greetings,

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )