V. I.

Lenin

To:   A. M. LEZHAVA, P. A. BOGDANOV AND V. M. MOLOTOV FOR MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

Comrades Lezhava, Bogdanov and Molotov (for Politbureau members)

January 23, 1922

I believe that it is absolutely necessary for us to accept
Krupp’s proposal just now, before the Genoa
Conference. [1]
It would be immensely important for us to conclude at least one, and what would, be even Letter, several
concession contracts, with German firms above all. That is why
there must be the most relentless struggle against the prejudice among the top section of the S.E.C. against
concessions, whether involving oil, agriculture or anything else.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to the proposal made by “Friedrich Krupp in Essen”
on a 50,000–dessiatine concession. See also this volume,
Documents 675 and 710.