712. To N. N. KRESTINSKY

First published in part in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Published in full in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the original. · page 443

6. X. 1920

Comrade Krestinsky,

Please raise the question in the Orgbureau. I think more should be issued for the sick by way of special diet and a decision adopted to improve it, 

by setting up a medical commission.

For scorbutics and other patients, I think, we should at once allow purchases to be made on the free market, subject to certain rules (perhaps also a commission and with the co-operation of the state farms).

Regarding the protest of the Petrograd Central Committee, I propose that votes be collected. I vote for:

1) mobilising Zinoviev;

2) cancelling general mobilisation of men.

Lenin