449. To THE MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

Written on October 18, 1921 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 345

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.

Lenin

Notes

[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).