Date: 1922-09-17
Source: ru:PSS/v54
Source: CW vol 54

Comrade Rykov
Comrade Rykov! From the newspapers, I see that the situation with Donbass and Baku is desperate. What do you think? Should we not risk taking some millions from the gold reserve? Would it not be worse to let the matter go, to leave it without help? Perhaps you could ask Smilga or his deputy

* See also the present volume, document 446. Ed.

TO M. K. POLYAKOV. SEPTEMBER 17, 1922

to prepare a brief (no more than 5-10 lines) summary so that I can clearly understand the situation? 461

Yours, Lenin

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Written on September 17, 1922

First published in 1945 in the Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript