V. I.

Lenin

646

To:   THE CHAIRMAN OF THE C.C. OF THE RED CROSS SOCIETY OF RUSSIA [1]

23/ II.1922.

Dear Comrades:

I am very sorry and hope that you will excuse me for being unable, because of my illness, to let you have an
article or a letter for your collection, something that ought
to have been done. The Soviet power has been doing everything possible and a few impossible things, is doing and
will continue to do this to help the starving. Best regards
and wishes for the complete success of your publication.

With communist greetings,

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

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Notes:
[1]
Written in reply to a letter from A. P. Golubkov, Deputy
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Red Cross Society of Russia,
of February 21, 1922, which said that the Society was publishing
for famine relief, an illustrated collection in Russian and three
foreign languages for distribution in Russia and abroad. The
letter said its Central Committee requested Lenin to let them have
“a few lines of your facsimile” for the collection (Central Party
Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U.
Central Committee).