Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

474

To: I. I. RADCHENKO

Published: First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 362^b-363^a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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27.X.1921.

Comrade Radchenko:

Comrade Martens has sent me the contract with the American company (Hammer and Mishell) signed by you.

I believe this contract to be of enormous importance, as marking the beginning of trade.

It is absolutely necessary that you should give special attention to the actualfulfilment of ourobligations.

I am sure that not a damn thing will be doneunless there is exactingpressure and supervision. Take measures of triple precaution and check upon the performance.

Let me know whom you appoint as responsible executive; which goods you are preparing; whether you are making a special emphasis on art and Gokhran^[1] items, etc.

Send me reports two or three times a month: what has come into port.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, C.P.C.

P.S. Arrival in Petrograd on 25.XII.1921? That’s not too late, is it?

Notes

[1] State Depository of Valuables.—Ed.