V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v53;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Comrade Martens!

If Hammer’s plan to supply one million poods to the Urals is serious (and from your letter I get the impression that your written confirmation of Reinstein’s words makes it necessary to regard the plan as serious, and not mere chatter), then you must try to give the whole thing the precise legal form of a contract or concession.*

Let it be a fictitious concession, but a concession (asbestos or other values of the Urals, or anything you like). It is important for us to show and to publish (later, after the start of fulfilment) that the Americans have agreed to concessions. This is politically important. Reply.

With Communist greetings, Lenin