653. To N. N. KRESTINSKY^[1]

First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the original. · page 413

11. VIII. 1920

Comrade Krestinsky,

Comrade Lao, Chairman of the Union of Chinese Workers in Russia, needs to confer with you on a number of questions. Will you please give him this possibility.

With communist greetings,
Lenin

Notes

[1] Lenin wrote this note on August 11, 1920, during his reception of Lao Hsiu-chao, a member of the Chinese Socialist Party and Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Union of Chinese Workers in Russia. On the back of the note is Krestinsky’s reply: “Tomorrow at 3.30.”