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To:   A. I. RYKOV

4/IV.1922

Comrade Rykov :

Please see to the business indicated by Comrade

Martens. [1] If it is confirmed that the People’s Commissariat
for Foreign Affairs had impeded things, they should be given exemplary punishment. Of course, we should be very
cautious about the immigration of workers to Russia, for,
on the other hand, we have very inadequate experience.
When all the formalities in the restrictive sense have been observed, it is downright criminal to allow any delays,
for if the economic work is to be started, the immigrants
must arrive just now, before the spring operations begin.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
An apparent reference to the permission for entry into the
R.S.F.S.R. issued to the American tractor team organised by
the Society of Friends of Soviet Russia (in the United States).