V. I.

Lenin

789

To:   THE FINANCIAL COMMITTEE

Copy to Comrade Teodorovich

Upon examining the estimates of the People’s
Commissariat for Agriculture, the inter-departmental conference
has refused to include the Gossemkultura estimates in the
P.C.A. budget, proposing that it request a loan from the
State Bank, which, instead of the 3.5 trillion rubles required for the first quarter, is prepared to give only one
trillion.

Attaching great state importance to the work of the
Shatilov Trust, and being sure that improvement in plant
varieties on the American model is a most important basis
for increasing the productivity of our agriculture, I request
a review of the decision taken by the inter-departmental
conference, so as to satisfy the needs of Gossemkultura as
far as possible.

I enclose as material a copy of Comrade Teodorovich’s statement and a copy of Comrade Osinsky’s letter, with
which I am in full agreement. [1]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, C.P.C.

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Notes:
[1]
See Note 726.

On November 18, 1922, the C.P.C. Financial Committee, having examined on Lenin’s proposal the estimates of Gossemkultura,
set it at 2,500,000 million for the quarter from October to
December 1922.