V. I. Lenin

Telegram To Narimanov, Chairman Of

The Council Of People’s Commissars Of Azerbaijan

Baku

My wish to the newly-opened Azerbaijan State Bank is that it
should be a firm bulwark of the New Economic Policy in the hands
of the workers and peasants of the fraternal Soviet republic. The donation of 40 millions to the famine victims on
the Volga and in Kurdistan is the best proof of the preparedness
to march under the banner of the Red International of working
people.

Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the R.S.F.S.R.