Written: Written on October 18, 1921
Published:
First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1976,
Moscow,
Volume 45,
page 345a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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To all members of the Politbureau
I am against the underlined proposal.[2] Such steps will merely create an impression of our weakness: as has always happened in such cases, the opponent will become impudent. I consider Krasin’s interview and polemics in the press to be enough. I request Comrade Mikhailov to ask Comrade Chicherin for my previous note to him on this matter, and to have it circulated also among the Politbureau members.[1]
18/X.
[1] See Document 443 of this volume.—Ed.
[2] Written on G. V. Chicherin’s letter of October 17, 1921, reiterating his proposal that the Soviet Government should issue a statement on recognition of tsarist Russia’s debts (see this volume, Documents 464 and 466).
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