V. I.

Lenin

628

To:   V. M. MOLOTOV FOR MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

To Comrade Molotov for the Politbureau

I propose that we resolve:

1) Not a word about the amount or categories of our
counter-claims.

Write about the counter-claims in general;

2) in general write about the conference and about our
pacifist programme as well.

( Write == print.) [1]

14/ II. Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This proposal was written at the bottom of G. V. Chicherin’s letter
of February 11, 1922, to the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C.
Chicherin objected to L. D. Trotsky’s instructions that, in
connection with preparations for the international economic and
financial conference (Genoa Conference), experts of the military
department should discuss in the press concrete material and the amount
of counter-claims on the capitalist countries for compensation of
the losses inflicted on Soviet Russia by the foreign armed
intervention and blockade.

On February 15, 1922, the Politbureau adopted Lenin’s proposal.