22/X [1921]
Comrade Kursky!
I am enclosing materials on the SKF concession (the contract is at Bogdanov’s and other materials).
You are familiar with this matter.
Please return it to me with your opinion.
Remember: you were against it because of the warehouse.
Would it not be possible to do the following: find a form (suitable,
convenient) of two transactions: under one transaction, SKF would buy from us
the entire warehouse. (Recognition of our ownership rights: for
that is the essence.)
Under the other, we would buy from them items to the amount specified
in the contract.
In the end, we pay them that amount.
Can our interests be secured otherwise? I doubt it.
With communist greetings,
Lenin