V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v36;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

6/XI. 1922

To the State Planning Commission, Comrade Krzhizhanovsky
Copy to the People’s Commissariat for Finance, Comrade Sokolnikov

I am sending you copies of two letters from Comrade Chubar in which he proves that life has upset the decision of the Council of Labour and Defence of October 13 on the Donets Basin.

It is necessary urgently to reconsider the question in its full scope, with the People’s Commissariat for Finance and the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions taking part in the discussion. It is necessary at all costs to find a solution of all the questions that would ensure the normal working of the Donets Basin and make it independent of the continued fall in the value of the rouble.

I consider this a matter of extreme urgency and request the State Planning Commission to concentrate specially on this work.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)