Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE TERRITORIAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTH-EAST

Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54. Printed from a typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 513^b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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To South-Eastern Territorial Economic Conference
Copy to Salsk District Executive Committee,
Don Region

Krupp’s concession for 50,000 dessiatines, to deal with which People’s Commissariat for Agriculture representatives Adamovich and another comrade, and Krupp’s representatives Klette and Fulte, Zechgau, have left for yourparts, is of enormous economic and political importance. You must do everything you can to help conclude the concession, and I shall regard as a crime any lack of zeal in this case. Telegraph execution in brief. Send all details by mail.^[1]

19/III–22

Lenin
Chairman, C.L.D.

Notes

[1] On March 23, 1922, the R.S.F.S.R. Government and “Friedrich Krupp in Essen” concluded a concession agreement on the lease to the latter of 50,000 dessiatines of land in Salsk District of Don Gubernia for 24 years, “for farming on rational lines”. Under the agreement, the concessionaire was to provide the implements, materials, and the necessary structures, and by way of royalty payments was to deliver to the Soviet Government 20 per cent of the total annual crop. It was signed by the company’s represent- ative, but the board refused to approve it (see this volume, Documents 601 and 710).