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Lenin

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TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO V. M. MOLOTOV AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

Comrade Molotov and all members of the Politbureau

1. Please acquaint all members of the Politbureau as
soon as possible with Teodorovich’s communication concerning the Siberian peasant Yakovenko, which I have
sent you. [1]

2. The same thing concerning today’s memo from Eiduk
on the American Government’s proposal to let us have
$20 million worth of grain on condition that we spend
$10 million. [2]

Lenin

December 22, 1921

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Notes:
[1]
See Document 554 of this volume.— Ed.

[2]
A reference to a letter from A. V. Eiduk, the Soviet
Government’s representative with ARA, of December 21, 1921. Eiduk
considered the Hoover proposal disadvantageous both economically and politically and recommended its rejection, because it
would result in an extension of the ARA apparatus, which was
engaged in hostile activity against Soviet Russia.

Having discussed the question “of political measures in
connection with ARA”, the Politbureau on December 31, 1921,
authorised a commission, consisting of I. S. Unschlicht, A. V.
Eiduk and V. M. Mikhailov, “to work out measures of special
precaution in the event of excessive extension of ARA’s
apparatus and its recruitment of unreliable elements” (Central Party
Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U.
Central Committee). See also this volume, Document 558.