23/II. 1922.

Dear comrades!

I deeply regret and apologize that due to illness I am unable to contribute an article or letter to your collection, as I certainly ought to have done. Soviet power has done, is doing, and will do everything possible and even some things impossible to aid the starving. I shake your hand and wish your publication complete success.

With comradely greetings, V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript