Urgent to Comrade Smolyaninov
Please read my letter on the reverse and put it through the
Councilof Labourand Defence (with the conclusion of the State Planning Commission) with maximum speed,
in 2-4 days.
5/8
Lenin
N. B.:
To expedite the process, do the following:
1) make 2-3 copies. Send one immediately to Krzhizhanovsky
with a request to give a conclusion by Tuesday;
2) To the Members of the
Councilof Labourand Defence send out immediately, ensuring
that they read it quickly and made their notes right here without
delay;
3) by telephone, poll the members of the Council of Labour and Defence whether they agree to
submit the preliminary draft to the commission: Krasin + Avayevsov + Bogdanov (or his special authorized representative).
Lenin
I consider the plan correct and subject to immediate approval. Perhaps, a few clarifications and
additions are desirable, for example:
1) provide working capital in gold, but only from our
proceeds for 1921 exports, obliging the given group to accelerate
the realization of these exports;
2) define the "lease" area for the given group
more precisely, taking primarily or even exclusively the
farthest north (this is more convenient for us, because it will spare us
from sending food there; it is more convenient politically,
since preferential conditions for workers — up to k.
ingold !! — will less provoke envy and conflicts among other
workers);
3) define more precisely the obligations of the group:
to fulfill not such-and-such a program (both production and
export in 1922 and especially in 1923);
4) oblige the "group" to strive to observe the interests of electrification
(buy more foreign accessories for electric stations, utilization of sawdust, etc.) — the interests of Russia's fuel supply (fuel branches; increase
in fuel delivery, firewood, to Moscow, etc.);
5) give the group what it asks for in the area of financial
and material independence.
5/VIII. 1921
Lenin