PROPOSAL TO THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(b) REGARDING THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO THE NIZHNY NOVGOROD RADIO LABORATORY
(In response to Dovgalevsky’s petition for the allocation of 50,000 rubles in gold to the Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory.)
I endorse this proposal and request that Comrade Molotov submit it for a vote by the Politburo. I ask the members of the Politburo to bear in mind the exceptional importance of the Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory, the immense services it has already rendered, and the tremendous benefits it can bring us in the near future—both in the realm of military affairs and in the field of propaganda.
Lenin
Dictated over the telephone on January 12, 1922.
First published in 1959 in Lenin Collection XXXVI.

Printed from the secretary’s record (a typewritten copy).