Comrade Molotov

Immediately send, on behalf of the Central Committee, an encrypted telegram to all provincial committees instructing that delegates to the party congress bring with them the most detailed possible data and materials on the valuables located in churches and monasteries and on the progress of their confiscation. 337

Lenin

Dictated by telephone

12 March 1922

at 13 hours 35 minutes

Printed for the first time, from the text

written in the hand of

N. S. Alliluyeva