V. I.

Lenin

800

To:   CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ

To the highly esteemed Charles Proteus Steinmetz, one of the few exceptions to the united front of representatives
of science and culture opposed to the proletariat.

I hope that a further deepening and widening of the breach in this front will not have to be awaited long. Let
the example of the Russian workers and peasants holding
their fate in their own hands serve as an encouragement
to the American proletariat and farmers. In spite of the
terrible consequence of the war destruction we are going
ahead, though not possessing to the extent of one tenth
the tremendous resources for the economic building of a
new life that have been at the disposal of the American
people for many years. [1]

Vladimir Oolianoff (Lenin)

Moscow. 7.XII.1922.

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Notes:
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