V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Comrade Molotov,

I think we must agree immediately and, to be on the safe side, send a telegram about this both through Krasin and through Berlin and Christiania, and not in cipher but in clear.

The terms of payment and control are not quite clear to me from the telegram which has been read to me.

If the time-limit is the 26th, perhaps it may still be possible to get verification and elucidation, but in no circumstances must we let such an opportunity slip. It would be particularly important to ensure the possibility of using this grain not only for famine relief but also for the spring sowing. 153

I earnestly request Molotov and Kamenev to ring me up this evening.

21/XII-21.  
Lenin

Dictated over the telephone

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First published in 1933

in *Lenin Miscellany XXIII*

Printed from a typewritten copy