Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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To: V. M. MOLOTOV FOR THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.^[1]

Written: Written on July 11, 1921
Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 207^c.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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I am in favour of both proposals.

1) Start supply of coal and foodstuffs to Petrograd right away; sign right away.

2) Accept Nansen’s terms: he will send one man.

Lenin

Notes

[1] Written on a letter from V. M. Molotov, Secretary of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C., who put to the vote of the Politbureau members two proposals: 1) to authorise a commission of P. A. Bogdanov and G. V. Tsyperovich to draft an agreement with the German consortium on its participation in rehabilitating the metal industry of Petrograd; and 2) Fridtjof Nansen’s proposal to send food to the population of Petrograd. Both were adopted by the Politbureau on July 11, 1921.