Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

394

To: Y. Z. VOLKOV

Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 304^b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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19/IX.1921.

Comrade Volkov:

I have read your letter.^[1] You are wrong. Our policy will not wreck our (trade) relations with France, but will accelerate them.

We have already made a gain by gettingFrance away from the intervention plans, and shall gain even more.

We have a way to trade negotiations with France.

With communist greetings,
Lenin

Notes

[1] This was added by Lenin at the bottom of a letter from N. P. Gorbunov, C.P.C. Business Manager, to the Kirsanov Uyezd Economic Conference, expressing, at Lenin’s request, gratitude for the timely submission of its report.