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Letter to Grigori Zinoviev, September 24, 1921
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 310a
Comrade Zinoviev
Copy: To Radek
â To Rakosi
â To Pravda secretary
24.IX.1921
Pravda has started to publish reports about the collections by foreign workers in aid of the starving in Russia.[1] That is not the kind of reports we need. What you have is a story. We have no paper for âstoriesâ and no time to read them. They are quite useless.
What we need is very short tables twice a month on the following lines:
Germany â 10 million marks=about ( ) gold rubles Austria â 10 â kronenâabout ( ) gold rubles Totalâââ about ( ) gold rublesThis will take 20 or 30 lines twice a month. That is not much.
That is the only thing we need. A total in gold rubles. I very strongly request you to do this and let me know.
With communist greetings,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
- â The collection of funds among foreign workers in aid of the starving in Russia was started after the âAppeal to the International Proletariatâ, which Lenin wrote on August 2, 1921 (see present edition, Vol. 32, p. 502). In reply to this letter MĂĄtyĂĄs Rakosi, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, wrote Lenin on September 27, 1921, that his proposal was âtaken into consideration and would be implementedâ (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee).