Reinstein informed me yesterday that the American millionaire Hammer, a Russian by birth (is in prison, accused of illegal abortion; in reality it is revenge for communism), is giving one million poods of grain to the Ural workers on very favourable terms (5%) and with acceptance of Ural valuables on commission for sale in America.

In Russia is the son (and partner) of this Hammer, a doctor, who brought Semashko a gift of surgical instruments worth 60,000 dollars. This son was in the Urals with Martens and decided to help restore Ural industry.

Martens will make an official report soon.

14/X.

Lenin

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Written on 14 October 1921.

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript