Date: 1922
Source: ru:PSS/v54

Source: PSS, Volume 54

Confidential

Comrade Kamenev!

In my view, Chicherin is mistaken. We must agree to the condition that grain be allocated exclusively to our starving peasants. In the SNK, we decided on November 5th to allocate gold only for 9 million poods (33 – 15 = 18; 18 ÷ 2 = 9 + 11). We must provide every possible form of assistance, even if it means bartering for English junk.

As for security, let us treat that as a conditional matter.

November 7. Lenin

To V. A. Avanesov. November 9, 1921

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Written on November 7, 1921.

First published in 1959.

In Lenin Collection, Volume XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript