MEMORANDUM TO V. M. MOLOTOV
20/III/1922 – To Molotov!
Please read this and have Stalin and others read it as well.
Spunde is an honest and not unintelligent man *.
Please return it to me, along with a few lines of commentary from those who have read it.
Lenin
1 In a letter addressed to A. P. Spunde—a party member since 1909, who had been working
(after the defeat of Kolchak) to restore Soviet power in the Urals and Siberia—
the discussion centered on food policy in Siberia. The letter is dated December 27, 1921.